Wheat crop ‘waiting to rot’ raises concerns in Sudan

Al-Laota, Sudan: No one would have guessed from the sacks of wheat kept in the tiny house of Emad Abdullah that Sudan’s food security is hanging by a thread after an October coup and Russia’s attack on Ukraine.

But the wheat farmer fears the grain will soon rot, as his country’s cash-strapped government backtracked on a promise to buy it at incentive prices.