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Browsing: Inter-regional food integration
Until early 2019, Omar al-Bashir was the President of Sudan after holding the position from June 30, 1989, to April 11, 2019.
For the three decades he was president, the country had not witnessed an uprising over food in the scale as huge, and widespread until 2018 when the country erupted in violence over the price of bread.
So dire was the need for bread which was unavailable that people could go for days without bread. Not because they could not afford it but because it was simply not there.
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This scenario sounds like a scene from a movie but it is the reality facing many African countries.
The lack of food is getting worse every passing year due to several factors including poor seeds and the ravaging effects of climate change and soil degradation. With the continent whose agriculture is …