SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Washington Post - The world has plenty of wheat. Putin still uses it as a weapon
The Washington Post quoted analysis on the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Sudan, with 79% and 2% of Sudan’s 2020 wheat imports coming from Russia and Ukraine respectively.
With Sudan’s economy “in free fall” amid currency collapse, massive inflation and a government that lacks widespread popular support, Kholood Khair of Insight Strategy Partners think-tank, said that the wheat supply from Russia and Ukraine is an immediate concern, warning that it will run out within two to three months.
Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation and a famine expert, said the situation in Sudan is so bad, that hyperinflation subsided “because no one has any money” culminating in a situation whereby food got cheaper, but because nobody could afford it.