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Parallel Foreign Exchange Benchmark (SSP / USD) rose 7.4% to 4,620 SSP per USD

Parallel Foreign Exchange Benchmark (SSP / USD) moved from 4,300 to 4,620 SSP per USD between 2026-03-31 and 2026-08-25.

Significant · Measured change · confidence SUPPORTED · evidence state ANNOUNCED

Before and after

Previous
4300 SSP per USD
Current
4620 SSP per USD
Absolute change
320 SSP per USD
Percentage
+7.4%

Baseline: The preceding measurement in the same published series: 4,300 SSP per USD as of 2026-03-31, sourced to Juba FX Syndicate (Fiscal year-end foreign debt servicing demand.).

Timing

Baseline dated
2026-03-31
Observed
2026-08-25
Effective
2026-08-25
Published by the source
2026-08-25
Detected by SSIP
2026-09-20
Verified
not yet reviewed

A source publishing today may describe something that happened months earlier. These dates are kept apart for that reason.

Why it matters

baseline strength (TIMESERIES_POINT (rank 5/5)) and evidence state (ANNOUNCED) put this in the significant band. 1 entity is named in the change itself, and 6 more are reachable through documented relationships — reachable, which is not the same as affected.

How significant, and why

Score 54. Bands: HIGH_IMPACT ≥ 70 · SIGNIFICANT ≥ 45 · NOTABLE ≥ 25 · ROUTINE ≥ 0.

  • +6 Magnitude — 7.4% move. A larger move is harder to absorb and harder to explain away as measurement noise.
  • +9 Evidence state — ANNOUNCED. A well-evidenced change deserves more attention than a weakly evidenced one of the same size. Size without evidence is noise.
  • +15 Baseline strength — TIMESERIES_POINT (rank 5/5). How defensible the comparison is. A change measured against a published prior measurement is worth more than one computed from a percentage.
  • +4 Directly affected entities — 1 entity named in the change. Entities the change is about, not merely near.
  • +1 Connected entities — 6 reachable within one relationship. Reach through documented relationships. Weighted lightly on purpose: connection is not impact.
  • +8 Dependency centrality — 41 relationships on the primary entity. A change at a well-connected entity has more routes to travel along.
  • +3 Geographic scope — 1 jurisdiction(s). A change touching more jurisdictions affects more of the country.
  • +8 Recency — 26 day(s) old. Old changes are history rather than intelligence. Age is penalised, not hidden.

What caused it

Possible mechanism — Crude Oil Pipeline Pumping Interruption (Sudan)

SSIP holds a recorded mechanism in this domain: "Crude Oil Pipeline Pumping Interruption (Sudan)", with a stated lag of 4 to 7 Days (Escrow account receipt lag). That describes how the two could be connected. It is not evidence that they are connected here, and the source's own "CONFIRMED_CAUSAL" label is not carried across.

What else could explain it: Global Brent crude spot price fluctuations BoSS FX emergency credit lines

A reasoned hypothesis with its confounders stated. It explains how the two *could* be connected, and is never rendered as a finding.

Who and what is affected

Directly affected

Connected

Juba County · Yei River County · Kajo-Keji County · Terekeka County · Morobo County · Lainya County

Connection is reach through a recorded relationship. It is not impact.

First-order effects

  • Insufficient evidence — SSIP cannot say who is affected by this change through Central Equatoria.
    Parallel Foreign Exchange Benchmark (SSP / USD) rose 7.4% to 4,620 SSP per USD → Central Equatoria → (no relationship that transmits an effect)
    6 entities are recorded against Central Equatoria, but only through relationships that place them there — being in the same jurisdiction or sector is proximity, not exposure. SSIP holds no record of who is exposed to this change.

What to watch next

Observable indicators, not predictions.

  • The next measurement in the published parallel-rate series — One move is a point; two is a direction. (SSIP temporal observations)
  • Central bank auction volumes — Auction behaviour is the main policy lever on this rate. Not currently observable: No SSIP source currently records auction volumes.

Evidence and confidence

Confidence: SUPPORTED. Evidence records: ev-00407. Datasets: national.temporalObservations.

  • Raises — Baseline: The preceding measurement in the same published series: 4,300 SSP per USD as of 2026-03-31, sourced to Juba FX Syndicate (Fiscal year-end foreign debt servicing demand.).
  • Raises — Source attribution: Evidence record ev-00407, attributed to Juba FX Syndicate.
  • Raises — Recency: Observed 2026-08-25, 26 day(s) before detection.

What would change this assessment: A second independent source reporting the same movement. Review by a named analyst.

Limitations

  • A measured movement between two dates. It does not establish what drove the movement.
  • A causal assessment of possible mechanism is the highest rung SSIP reaches without a human review. It is not a finding that anything caused this.

How to read this

Every figure on this page carries an evidence state — Verified, Operational, Announced, Estimated, Inferred, Disputed, Simulated, Reference or Unavailable — and each state has a stated definition. SSIP does not present an estimate as an observation, and it does not record a missing value as zero.

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Related

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