Sudan: Bread Crisis in Port Sudan Enters Its Third Day

23 October 2014

Port Sudan — Port Sudan is facing a shortage of bread since three days. Hundreds of people have to wait each day in long queues in front of the bakeries to obtain some piece of bread. Some bakeries closed their doors.

"Bread is now sold at the black market," an activist named Amin Sinada told Radio Dabanga from the plagued capital of Red Sea state. "And at the bakeries, we receive now three pieces of bread for one Sudanese pound instead of four."

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