Staples like rice and eggs have tripled in price over the year, while cooking oil has doubled, according to residents of the capital. Bakeries, subsidized by the state, have held their price of SYP15 for eight pieces of traditional flat bread.
But with electricity blackouts 12 hours a day hitting even middle-class neighborhoods not involved in protests, the bread makers have struggled to meet demand, leading to long lines. Those who can afford it now buy bread from the black market, where it costs 50 Syrian pounds a pack.
Shortages of diesel and heating oil have also hampered bakeries, as well as transport. That has left families cold through the winter months, spawning a flourishing black market with traders buying precious supplies, often through contacts in the regime, for the subsidized price of 15 Syrian pounds per liter and selling it for 35 Syrian pounds.
For the first time in a generation, residents of Damascus have seen massive lines of cars, jostling two by two at petrol stations as the once rock steady government-backed prices begin to unravel, climbing from SYP40 for a liter of gas to SYP50 recently, and up to SYP150 on the black market.
AW: Syrien - Assad und der Aufstand / Sammelstrang
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Zudem lag Homs ja nie unter voller FSA-Kontrolle. Es war eigentlich nur ein einziger Stadtbezirk(Bab Amr). Der Rest der Stadt war und ist Pro-Assad. Nur hört sich das natürlich nicht so gut in der Berichterstattung an, wenn von einer Großstadt nur ein einzelner Bezirk rebelliert. 
