{"id":175883,"date":"2018-08-16T17:11:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T17:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabangasudan.preview.websight.nl\/mps-slate-sudan-govt-for-aggravating-the-bread-and-flour-crisis\/"},"modified":"2018-08-16T17:11:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T17:11:00","slug":"mps-slate-sudan-govt-for-aggravating-the-bread-and-flour-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/mps-slate-sudan-govt-for-aggravating-the-bread-and-flour-crisis","title":{"rendered":"MPs slate Sudan govt. for \u2018aggravating bread and flour crisis\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sudanese MP Abulgasim Burtom, the head of the parliamentary alliance of change, has harshly criticised the government for “aggravating the bread and flour crisis”.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He said that the successive crises are a sign of mismanagement, the failure of the government’s economic programme and that it has no solutions to the crises.<\/p>\n

He accused the government of stirring the bread crisis in order to increase the price of flour and warned against the consequences of taking this step; that the owners of bakeries are suffering from an increase in input prices of the bread industry.<\/p>\n

He described the parliament’s role in the flour and bread crisis as negative because of the “mechanical majority of the National Congress Party”.<\/p>\n

He played down the importance of the parliament’s summoning of the ministers and questioning them and considered that as having no effect on the government’s decision.<\/p>\n

Acute shortage<\/strong><\/p>\n

The bread crisis in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum as well as the states has reached a peak<\/a>, leading to the closure of the bakeries for lack of flour and forcing residents to queue for long hours, often without success. There have also been incidents of violent quarrels<\/a> reported as residents compete for the little bread there is.<\/p>\n

Fuel crisis<\/strong><\/p>\n

The bread shortage is a knock-on result of the chronic fuel crisis in Sudan<\/a>. This impacts logistics and puts mills under pressure leading to a shortage of flour, however vehicles to transport the flour to bakeries must queue for fuel. The bakeries themselves are also short of gas to fire their ovens.<\/p>\n

The ongoing crisis threatens longer-term food supplies in Sudan as agricultural projects are also in short supply of fuel<\/a>.<\/p>\n