South Sudan joins Venezuela in struggling with inflation wrote The Economist:

• Last year hyperinflation in South Sudan peaked at more than 50% a month.
• Oil used to produce 99.8% of the world’s newest country’s export revenue – and after prices collapsed the government printed money to pay its debts.
• Food is mostly imported from neighboring countries, and prices have massively jumped contributing to a “near-famine situation”.
• Despite its citizens needing all the help they can get, the government’s latest revenue measure is to raise the cost of work permits for foreign aid workers from $100 per person to $10,000.

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