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Description: (2 May 2022) UGANDA HIGH PRICES SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS RESTRICTION SUMMARY: LENGTH: 4:49 ASSOCIATED PRESS     Kampala, Uganda – 18 April 2022 1. Wide of a market street 2. Various of staff working in wholesale shop 3. Zoom out of cooking oil 4. Various of customer shopping 5. Mariam Nantongo, shop owner, giving customer change 6. Various of soap on shelf 7. SOUNDBITE (English) Mariam Nantongo, businesswoman: "We have been with over 100 customers, now we have remained with 50. Most of them they have run away because of the prices, they can come, they ask, then they say 'you are very expensive', then they go." 8. Wide of cars on Kampala road 9. Various of fuel station 10. Close of pump display 11. Close of pump attendant counting money 12. Zoom out from prices at Shell fuel station to car being filled 13. Close of Total fuel station price display 14. Various of fuel tank delivering fuel 15. Various of Parliament building ASSOCIATED PRESS Kampala, Uganda – 14 April 2022 16. SOUNDBITE (English)  David Bahati, Ugandan State Minister for Trade: "The situation has been worsened by the Russian-Ukraine conflict which has further disrupted the supply of oil, cereals such as wheat, corn, sunflower oil as well as essential metals like aluminium and nickel. The two countries are major producers and exporters of these commodities." ASSOCIATED PRESS Kampala, Uganda – 18 April 2022 17. Various of Nakasero market 18. Wide of Kamala resident Susan Wasige and her children 19. Various of porridge being prepared for breakfast 20. Wasige serving her children breakfast 21. SOUNDBITE (Luganda) Susan Wasige, Kampala resident. "We can barely afford anything. For weeks now, I have been giving the children food just boiled in water, sometimes when I get margarine, I mix in the sauce so they can eat. We even have given up sugar because we can't afford it, everything is very expensive." 22. Various of fuel station ASSOCIATED PRESS Kampala, Uganda – 20 April 2022 23. Various set up shots of Herbert Jaluum, business analyst   24. SOUNDBITE (English)  Herbert Jaluum, CEO of Young Treps/ Business Analyst: "The government should take care, but also my experience with our government is they have always had a hands off approach to everything. They have always said let the market tussle itself out, for me which I think is not a good thing. Government should have the capacity or the interest or the will to be able to dictate some of these things, because once you leave everything to market forces then you are leaving everything to the business people or the private sector. To a larger extent, the private sector is a little bit selfish, because the main aim of the private sector is profiteering so to what extent should they be allowed to profiteer? I think it's only the state that can come in and put a limit to that." ASSOCIATED PRESS Kampala, Uganda – 18 April 2022 25. Various of Wasige doing laundry LEADIN: Prices for basic commodities have been soaring in Uganda for several weeks. The government blames the prolonged coronavirus pandemic and the war in Ukraine - and many people are wondering how much worse the situation will get. STORYLINE: The once busy streets of Kampala's markets are getting emptier each day as more and more Ugandans are faced with ever increasing prices for basic commodities. Mariam Nantongo runs a wholesale shop in the middle of the city centre. A once vibrant area, she says the number of customers has drastically decreased since prices started rising. In recent weeks, many filling stations have run dry as Ugandans saw fuel prices shooting up. Find out more about AP Archive: aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: facebook.com/APArchives ​​ Instagram: instagram.com/APNews You can license this story through AP Archive: aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/ac48c26a14a74aed93f5de509d5b03da