Bread prices rose in Sudan’s southern town of Kosti in White Nile State with bakers attributing the inflation to the high price of flour as well as new regulations imposed by security services.
The cost of a sack of flour has reached 160 Sudanese pounds in the town.
Security authorities are reported to have imposed regulations on some traders ordering them to reduce the rate of their production owing to the flour shortage.
It is rumoured that they are meanwhile assisting other favoured bakeries to improve their production. Some traders accused the state government of supporting businesses affiliated to the government’s ruling party.