The Syrian Ministry of Internal Trade has announced a hike of around 130% in the price of gasoline amid severe fuel shortages and long power cuts in the country at war since 2011.
Once sold at 1,100 Syrian pounds, a liter of subsidized gasoline is now worth 2,500 Syrian pounds, an increase of around 127%, the ministry said in a statement relayed by the official news agency Sana on Saturday night in sunday.
As for the price of unsubsidized gasoline, it went from 3,500 pounds to 4,000 pounds per liter.
This is the third increase in the price of petrol this year, as the national currency continues to devalue, now reaching 4,250 pounds to the dollar (regarding 1 euro) on the black market, once morest an official rate of 2,814 pounds. for a dollar.
Since its outbreak in 2011, the Syrian conflict has caused the death of around half a million people, devastated infrastructure and caused the largest population displacement since the Second World War.
With MAP
