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Tens of thousands have inundated Port Sudan, creating queues at gas stations, while prices have begun to escalate amid a run on staple foods.
Salah Nugod remembers Port Sudan’s heyday, when nightclubs pumped out beats, alcohol was authorized and shipping tycoons from Greece and Turkey rubbed shoulders with traders from India, Yemen and Egypt.
Situated on the Red Sea coastline, the North African city boomed during the years following Sudan’s 1956 independence from the UK. The streets teemed with construction projects and merchants hauling oilseeds, bags of cotton, flour and car tires, recalls Nugod, a resident and former oil-refinery worker who is now in his late 60s.
