Authorities in Dilling County in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains have raised the alarm over the worsening humanitarian situation in the region.
The Director of the Agriculture, Suleiman Ashab Anabi Kabush, said the prices of the staple sorghum had risen to unprecedented levels.
Kabush told Radio Tamazuj on Tuesday that foodstuff had become too expensive for the local residents. One maluwa of sorghum, for instance, was going for 6,000 Sudanese pounds, a level that has never been experienced before. In 2022 and 2023, a similar quantity was sold for 500 Sudanese pound in the entire county.
He said the situation was worsening by the day because of the war and famine was becoming widespread.
Kabush pointed out that locusts destroyed many farms in the county last year, occasioning poor harvests, hence the famine.
The local residents, Kabush went on, had shared their little harvests with the IDPS and their stocks were now depleted.
The Director of the Agriculture said that though some emergency food aid had arrived for the IDPS, it was not sufficient, as many more displaced people were arriving.
Some IDPs, he explained, had been offered land to cultivate during the current rainy season, but Kabush appealed to humanitarian agencies to intervene.