Khartoum State is facing a severe bread crisis leading to long cues in front of the selling points. Many bakeries have closed their doors.
People who want to buy bread can only buy for a maximum of SDG3 ($0.52) per customer, says Tayeb Osman of the the Federation of Bakeries in Akhir Lahza newspaper. Other bakers have reduced the size and weight of the bread.
The bakeries receive insufficient flour. The ration of the bakery is reduced with 50%. The Saiga flour company acknowledged the crisis since last week after the dollar rate went up.
Manager Mohamed Yousif says: “Either the government subsidizes the flour or allows a free market for import and sales of flour”.The biggest flour company says that all importing companies together have outstanding debts of US$ 280 million towards the grain companies they buy from.The citizens started to complain and demand Khartoum governor Abdelrahman Khidir to intervene.
The owner of the Salaam bakery in Jebel Aulia says that people complain, but he can not do anything to help them: “Today we have received only four bags of flour, while normally we receive 15 bags”
