SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: AFP - Angry Sudanese queue for bread in city where pupils shot dead
AFP’s feature piece covers the situation in Al Obeid, following the killing of six people, including five school children, after they protested bread and fuel shortages.
Al Obeid is under a curfew, although residents venture out at night to search for bread and “other scarce goods.”
Various residents complained about power shortages.
Muwawi Saad, an employee at a private company, said: “getting food has become a tough task. You have to wait for an hour or even more. Often you pass by one bakery and find that it is shut because there is no electricity.”
Bakery owner Mohammed Al Hassan said “having your own [electricity] generator means increasing your costs and in turn exposing yourself to losses.”
Resident Babikir Awad said “we have been suffering for months, but the situation has escalated in the past two weeks.”