The road between Bunj in Maban County of South Sudan and Yabus town in southern Blue Nile of Sudan has been cut by flooding of the Yabus creek, according to traders. The route via SPLA-controlled Blue Nile is a main route for the flow of goods between Upper Nile State and Ethiopia.

Adam Abdullah, a trader at Bunj market told Radio Tamazuj that goods are available at the market despite the heavy rains, adding that the goods reach them from Juba through Malakal and Melut. But Abdullah pointed out that price of sugar sack is 600 pounds and the flour sack is 550 pounds.

He also stated that there is a lack of onions at Bunj market attributing the reason to the road closure “because many goods come from Yabus at the border including onions.”

On the northern side of the border in Sennar State, goods prices are daily increasing in the city market. Abu Kor Mohammad, a trader at the market said that the prices of a sugar sack reached 350 pounds and one pound of sugar is 3 pounds, the jerrycan of cooking oil is 215 pounds, the sack of flour weighing fifty kilos reached 200 pounds, while the big sack of 100 kilos is 400 pounds, a millet sac is worth 350 pounds, a charcoal sac costs 70 pounds, while the price of one sorghum sack of the ‘Al Fitrit’ and ‘Al Gadam’ varieties is two hundred pounds.

Mohammed added that the price of an onion sack is 150, and one kilo of lamb and beef meat is 40 pounds while the wheat sack reached 300 pounds, and one barrel of gasoline is 1200 pounds, and petrol is 500 pounds per barrel.