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A resident told
Radio Dabanga from the state in eastern Sudan that the price of a loaf
of bread in the black market has amounted to 80 pence instead of 50
pence.
A large number of
bakeries in the state closed because of the lack of flour. He called on
the federal government to intervene urgently to address the bread
crisis.
Meanwhile the
markets in El Gedaref witnessed an unprecedented decline in the purchase
of goods. Merchant Usama El Sayed told Radio Dabanga that the decline
is caused by the surge of prices, as well as people being pre-occupied
with the agricultural season.
A number of shops
were closed because they suffered financial losses, El Sayed said. "The
income of people is not enough to buy their basic needs."
In the beginning of
this month the minister of finance and economy of El Gedaref attributed
the crisis to the alleged sale of quantities of flour by owners of
bakeries to traders in the markets.
The
secretary-general of El Gedaref Chamber of Commerce held the Ministry of
Finance in the state responsible for the bread shortage, because of its
non-commitment to distribute the quota of flour to the bakeries in the
state. He confirmed the reduction in quotas by 50 per cent.
Since the start of
this year, people in various parts of Sudan, in particularly in the east
of the country, complain about a shortage of flour. In Khartoum almost a
quarter of all bakeries are reported to have stopped work because of
the lack of flour according to the head of the state's statistical
office. This was contradicted when the director-general of the Ministry
of Finance, Adel Abdelaziz El Faki, announced this week that no bakeries
in the state have stopped working because of a lack of flour.
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