Sudan food prices in 2026: what a family pays, and why it keeps rising

By the Gifts to Sudan volunteers · Published 6 November 2026 · Updated 6 November 2026
Written with help from AI tools; the sources are cited on the page. Found a mistake? Write to info@giftstosudan.org.

Ask a Sudanese family what has changed most since the war began and many will answer with one word: prices. Here is what the market monitors of the World Food Programme (WFP) and the REACH initiative recorded in 2026, in plain words, with every figure dated and linked.

Prices differ a lot from one state and one month to the next. These are national averages from the latest public reports we could check in November 2026. Always look at the sources for newer numbers.

Shoppers at a vegetable stall in Sudan — Illustrative photo. Photo: Shaaiixx, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (licence, cropped)

Staple prices: sorghum and wheat flour (April 2026)

WFP collects prices every month in each state capital. Its May 2026 Market Monitor reported national averages for April 2026:

Sorghum, the bread of most Sudanese homes (kisra and aseeda): SDG 1,572 per kg, up 23.3% in one month and 22% in a year.
Wheat flour: SDG 3,980 per kg, up 17.5% in a month and 47% in a year.
WFP's local food basket: up 17.9% in a month and 37% in a year.
Across all basic foods it tracks, WFP saw rises from 1% to 47% in that single month.

What a household needs for a month (July 2026)

Aid groups in Sudan price a Minimum Expenditure Basket: the food, household and hygiene items a family needs for a month. The REACH round of 2-11 July 2026 (1,210 trader interviews in 12 states) found:

The national basket cost SDG 689,341, about US$194 at the bank rate, 9% more than in June.
Food alone rose 11% in a month, led by vegetable oil (+49%), milk (+25%), dried tomatoes (+24%), onions (+18%), sugar (+11%) and sorghum (+9%).
The most expensive baskets were in White Nile (SDG 919,208), North Darfur (SDG 784,481) and Blue Nile (SDG 758,456).
Cooking gas rose 20% and water supply 17% in the same month.

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Why prices keep rising

The pound keeps falling. WFP recorded SDG 4,050 per US dollar on the parallel market in April 2026, 12% weaker than in March and 58% weaker than a year before. (The bank rate used by REACH in July was SDG 3,550.)
Smaller harvests. Sorghum reaching the Gadaref auction market from October 2025 to April 2026 was 192,421 tonnes, 19% below the five-year average.
Broken supply routes and the lean season before the next harvest, which push prices up most in besieged and cut-off areas.

What this means for families

In the joint release of 15 May 2026, the UN food and children's agencies said nearly 19.5 million people in Sudan faced crisis levels of hunger or worse. When the price of oil jumps by half in a month, a family cuts meals, sells what it owns, or goes into debt. Behind each percentage is a pot that is half full.

Basins of grain and spices at a Khartoum bazaar — Illustrative photo. Photo: Petr Adam Dohnálek, CC BY-SA 3.0 cz, via Wikimedia Commons (licence, cropped)

How our gifts deal with rising prices

The volunteers buy in local markets, so the money also reaches Sudanese sellers and farmers. See Sudan's date farmers.
Every purchase goes into the public ledger with the price in SDG and the rate used, so you see what your gift bought at that day's prices.
Families receive goods, as a gift, not cash that may lose value before it is spent.

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