"The price of bread will go up --my customers will not be happy--and [they] will blame me for something I cannot control." The Steering Committee of the Bakeries Union in Sudan expects a rise in bread prices. "If the situation continues in this way, there will be no cultivation anymore in Al Jazeera," says Ahmed Babiker, Secretary-General of the Al-Jazeera State Farmers Association. Take, for example, the recent fighting in the Kulbus area of West Darfur State. The lack of bread will induce more hunger, Ali says, as well as trigger further political unrest.

Source: The North Africa Journal June 25, 2022 14:01 UTC