Leather Sector: More than $20 Million Losses due the War
Sudan Events – Nahid Oshi
Head of the Leather Exporters Division, Khaled Mahmoud Haroun, has revealed the losses of the sector as a result of the tanneries stopping work from the beginning of the war until today, amounting to 20 million dollars, while the value of the leather that was in the tanneries at the outbreak of the war amounted to about 5 million dollars, indicating that the sector was directly affected by the war. He said that the leather supplies come from the slaughterhouses spread in Omdurman and the Al-Kadro slaughterhouse, where the daily slaughter for consumption in the capital, in addition to the exported meat, besides what is imported from the states, especially the states of western Sudan (Al-Geneina specifically). He added in a statement to (Sudan Events): After the outbreak of the war, Khartoum no longer worked, nor did the western states, and all the slaughtered animals were from the Gezira and the River Nile, and these states do not have tanneries for tanning leather, and leather suppliers have resorted to preserving them by salting and drying them, in addition to the high production costs of salt, transport, etc., besides the low percentage of slaughtered animals due to low consumption and the small number of animals imported from western states.
