Bread lines remain a familiar scene in the main streets of Khartoum, although the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning announced increasing subsidies of flour sack from 100 to 250 Sudanese pound (around USD14) and a Russian ship loaded with wheat had already arrived in Port Sudan.
Sudan has been undergoing a crisis in providing wheat to the bakeries, for a month now, due to the scarcity of foreign monetary resources in the Central Bank of Sudan (CBS), which had to borrow from some commercial banks to fulfill the country’s needs of essential products such as wheat and fuel.
The ministry demanded that the bakeries increase their daily production to exceed 100,000 sacks to cover the needs of the capital and states.
The security authorities and the disciplinary and popular forces called for taking precautions to maintain the subsidized wheat and to prevent smuggling practices.
Tariq Shalabi, State Minister at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, said that the country seeks to provide bread given that it is a strategic product that is linked to the lives of citizens.
He pointed out that the past period saw several policies to resolve this crisis.
