January 19 - 2021 ED DAMAZIN / WAD MADANI / EL OBEID
School students walking home in Ed Damazin, capital of Blue Nile state (agri2day.com).
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Ed Damazin, Blue Nile state, students took to the streets on Monday, in protest against a 250 per cent increase in bread prices. Activists in El Gezira and North Kordofan expressed their discontent about the absence of progress in the states.
Security forces confronted the demonstrators with violence, using rubber bullets and tear gas, one of the protestors told Radio Dabanga.
“The price of a subsidised loaf of bread in Ed Damazin increased from SDG 2 to SDG 5, while the transportation tariff rose from SDG 30 to SDG 100,” he said.
January 14 - 2021 KHARTOUM
Food insecurity in Sudan in Dec 2020-Jan 2021 (fews.net)
The annual inflation rate for December recorded 269.33 per cent compared to 254.34 in November. The US Dollar rate on the parallel market in Khartoum jumped to SDG 275 yesterday. Acute food insecurity will remain high in several parts of Sudan in the coming months.
Sudan’s Central Bureau of Statistics reported yesterday that the annual inflation rate increased by 14.99 per cent in December. The average inflation rates in 2020 amounted to 163.26 per cent compared to 51 per cent in 2019, an increase of 112 per cent.
The inflation rate for the Food and Beverage Group was 206.44 per cent in December compared to 203.13 per cent in November, while the inflation rate for imported goods in the so-called Consumer Basket reached 194.42 per cent in December compared to 181.70 per cent the month before.