Fuel shortages are damaging crops in Sudan's El Gezira state and pushing food prices higher, while bakeries in North Kordofan have gone on strike, according to reports from the country.

Radio Dabanga reported on 8 November that shortages of fuel were hitting farmers in El Gezira, Sudan's main agricultural region, as food prices soared. In North Kordofan, bakeries stopped work in protest at the shortages, adding to pressure on households already struggling with the cost of living.

The shortages are part of a wider fuel crisis across Sudan. Denise Brown, the United Nations resident and humanitarian coordinator, told UN News that hundreds of UN relief trucks were stranded because there was no fuel to move them. She said two weeks of drone strikes on power stations had left the national grid close to collapse, and World Health Organization staff visiting a hospital outside Khartoum watched treatment for 25 dialysis patients stop when the lights went out.

In Wad Madani, the capital of El Gezira state, residents have faced long queues at filling stations, sometimes waiting two or three days, while black-market fuel prices have climbed sharply. Hospitals in the city are also struggling with shortages of medicines and rising cases of dengue fever and malaria. The UN said seven World Food Programme convoys had been hit this year, destroying lives and rations meant for the hungriest people.