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South Sudanese Consumer Prices More Than Doubled Last Month

A market in Juba, South Sudan.

Photographer: Camille Lepage/AFP via Getty Images
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South Sudan’s annual inflation rate surged to 109.9 percent in December as food, clothing, alcoholic-beverage and utility costs increased, the National Bureau of Statistics said.

Inflation accelerated from 73.6 percent in November, the Juba-based bureau said in a statement Tuesday. Prices climbed