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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Zeinab Mohammed Salih in Omdurman

‘The cost is crazy’: fighting in Sudan sends food prices soaring

People walk past closed shops in Khartoum
People walk past closed shops in Khartoum, which sits across the Nile from Omdurman. Photograph: Marwan Ali/AP

“I haven’t sold anything since 6am today,” said Adam Musa, a vegetable seller at Omdurman’s open-air market, as fighting between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces raged a few miles away. “There are no people buying.”

Musa, 55, faced two problems: a lack of customers, and an inability on the part of those who did come to pay what he was charging.

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