Bread crisis in Port Sudan enters third day
Port Sudan has been facing a shortage of bread for the last three days. Hundreds of people have to wait each day in long queues in front of the bakeries to obtain some bread. Some bakeries closed their doors. “Bread is now sold on the black market,” an activist named Amin Sinada told Radio Dabanga from the plagued capital of Red Sea state. “For one Sudanese pound, we now receive three pieces of bread instead of four from the bakeries.” Sinada attributed the bread crisis to “certain entities smuggling flour from the port to the neighbouring countries of Eritrea and Ethiopia. “It seems that the Red Sea state authorities have no intention to intervene,” he noted. File photo: A bread distribution post in Khartoum, January 2014 (Radio Tamazuj)
Port Sudan has been facing a shortage of bread for the last three days. Hundreds of people have to wait each day in long queues in front of the bakeries to obtain some bread. Some bakeries closed their doors.
“Bread is now sold on the black market,” an activist named Amin Sinada told Radio Dabanga from the plagued capital of Red Sea state. “For one Sudanese pound, we now receive three pieces of bread instead of four from the bakeries.”
Sinada attributed the bread crisis to “certain entities smuggling flour from the port to the neighbouring countries of Eritrea and Ethiopia.
“It seems that the Red Sea state authorities have no intention to intervene,” he noted.
File photo: A bread distribution post in Khartoum, January 2014 (Radio Tamazuj)
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