The Sudanese government has taken procedures to control the flour market supplies in the country, with the continuity of the phenomenon of the bread lines in Khartoum and other cities.
As the crisis seemed to end in Khartoum due to operating and supplying the flour mills and placing them as priority in the electricity supply, the prices of flour specialized for products other than bread are hiking with a 200 percent.
Khartoum locals reach around 10 million Sudanese who were consuming four years ago 30 million pieces of bread per day. The sack of wheat flour rose during the current crisis, that has started since 10 days, from EGP550 to0 EGP900.
The government supports the difference in price every year, however, the scarcity of foreign currency in Sudan this year has prevented the provision of this product on time.
Following this, the country has witnessed a shortage in the bakeries’ production which led to the phenomenon of the long lines to get bread. Pictures about this phenomenon are going viral on social networks and in newspapers.
The current crisis is similar to the last crisis witnessed by the country in January when the flour sack price rose to EGO550 (around USD30.5) after it was EGP175.
According to Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper sources in the Sudanese Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, the basic goods crisis goes back to the weakness of reserves in the foreign currency. The sources added that the crisis started to appear in the first month of 2018 budget.
The Sudanese government supports the wheat with around USD500 million every three months, however this support benefits the neighboring countries in which the wheat sack price is around USD7.5 inside Sudan while it is USD30 in the western neighboring countries.
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