Starting With Fuel Prices and Now Bread… Another Price Hike

 Recently, in a rather predictable development, the cost of living crisis has notably worsened, with the price of a single loaf of bread reaching (350 Sudanese pounds), when four loaves of bread -until a very recent date- used to be priced at (1,000 Sudanese pounds). The aforementioned reality comes mere days after fuel prices soared and supplies became scarce.

Bakery owners attributed the price increase to the rising cost of flour, increased production costs, and the soaring price of fuel, which has reached (40,000 Sudanese pound) per gallon.

Unfortunately, the economic and living conditions of Sudanese citizens continue to deteriorate -unaddressed, with the Sudanese pound plummeting -in value- to its lowest level ever, as the US dollar is trading at the moment at around (6,000 Sudanese pounds) on the parallel market amidst a severe shortage of hard currency.

Furthermore, the afore referenced price hikes have regrettably cast a shadow of hardship and continued suffering on the Sudanese families already facing dire humanitarian conditions due to the ongoing war, which broke out in (2023).