00:06Abaira Hassan struggles to buy bread for her family due to the 40% spike in flour prices
00:11and the long queues at bakeries, a situation that has forced her to reduce the number of
00:17daily meals for her family to just two.
00:21In the past, there were three meals, breakfast, lunch and dinner, with a fourth meal often
00:27added for children.
00:28Nowadays, however, eating has been reduced to just two meals, breakfast and lunch.
00:34People currently eat breakfast at noon, having spent a long time waiting in line for bread.
00:39They then have to join the queue all over again to get bread for lunch.
00:44For ordinary citizens, the impact goes beyond higher prices.
00:48Families are finding that the same amount of money buys less bread than before, forcing
00:54many to reconsider how they allocate their limited household budgets.
01:00Citizens are now complaining about the increase of the prices of flour and bread.
01:04Today, the citizen which was spending 10,000 Sudanese pounds to buy bread is spending 20,000 Sudanese
01:10pounds.
01:11Currently, citizens are complaining because they simply cannot afford.
01:14Right now, flour is not available and we are able only to get a small amount of it with
01:20great difficulty.
01:22A sack of flour now costs around 191,500 Sudanese pounds.
01:29The high comes amid rising costs for other essential baking inputs.
01:34Bakery owners warned that continued increases in production costs could push the price of
01:40a single loaf of bread to 1,000 Sudanese pounds, as some bakeries struggle to secure sufficient
01:49flour supplies.
01:51A number of bakeries have shut down because the bread making business now requires significant
01:56capital.
01:56We used to purchase 100 sacks of flour for 8 million Sudanese pounds.
02:01Today, the cost is 19.2 million pounds.
02:04Yeast, which we previously bought for 150,000 pounds, now costs 330,000 pounds, and oil, formerly
02:12120,000 pounds, is now 330,000 pounds.
02:16The cost of all inputs for bread production have risen sharply, with increases ranging from
02:21150 percent to 200 percent.
02:23For residents, securing an essential staple food at a price they can afford has become a
02:28daily struggle, as the capital continues to grapple with the economic consequences of war that
02:35began in April 2023.
