The economy is stagnant and jobs are scarce, while recent floods have exacerbated the situation by blocking roads. The problem is particularly acute for women who lost husbands in Sudan's long-running civil war, which reached an uneasy truce in the last decade. "Alcohol is my second husband", one mother-of-three who's been turning out hooch for 14 years to pay for schooling told the Sudan Tribune . There's only one brewery in South Sudan, mass-producing White Bull lager, but United Nations-backed Radio Miraya suggests many drinkers prefer the women's local brews such as siko, a sugarcane gin.