{"id":240666,"date":"2026-08-08T20:05:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-food-prices-surge-in-omdurman-as-north-darfur-food-crisis-deepens\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T20:05:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:05:45","slug":"sudan-food-prices-surge-in-omdurman-as-north-darfur-food-crisis-deepens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-food-prices-surge-in-omdurman-as-north-darfur-food-crisis-deepens\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Food Prices Surge in Omdurman As North Darfur Food Crisis Deepens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Omdurman \/ El Malha \/ Ed Debba \/ Mellit \u2014 <em>Food and consumer prices have surged across Omdurman, with residents reporting increases of 20 to 25 per cent over the past month and some essential goods rising by more than 40 per cent.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Residents told Radio Dabanga that prices are changing almost daily and vary sharply between shops, placing further pressure on households already struggling with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/expert-says-currency-crisis-requires-comprehensive-economic-reforms-as-central-bank-of-sudan-policies-achieve-only-partial-success\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">economic fallout<\/a> of Sudan&#8217;s war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">A resident of El Thawra neighbourhood in Omdurman 10 said a kilogram of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608070008.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Omdurman \/ El Malha \/ Ed Debba \/ Mellit \u2014 Food and consumer prices have surged across Omdurman, with residents reporting increases of 20 to 25 per cent over the past month and some essential goods rising by more than 40 per cent. Residents told Radio Dabanga that prices are changing almost daily and vary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,3723,2269,9626,5074,257,6732,20739,10246,254,4708,1613,10716],"class_list":["post-240666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crisis","tag-darfur","tag-deepens","tag-food","tag-news","tag-north","tag-omdurman","tag-prices","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-surge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}