Weddings in Nubian villages -- renowned for their long extravagant parties -- are no longer three-day, nine-meal affairs to which the entire town is invited. "A few months ago, there was a kind of agreement among the villages to make weddings more affordable," Maghrabi told AFP. "It used to be shameful for families in villages to go and buy bread from a bakery. But with the cost of grain rising 70 percent in a year, he added that "everyone is lining up outside bakeries" run by the government. At least they can get subsidised bread there -- even if it tastes nothing like what they would make at home.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 12, 2023 10:35 UTC