(17 Mar 2025)
SUDAN BAKERY
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bahri, Sudan – 9 March 2025
1. Man flattening dough to make bread
2. Various of men preparing dough for baking
3. Various of man placing dough in oven
4. Baked bread coming out of oven
5. Various of men flattening dough
6. Various of homes and cars damaged as result of fighting
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mostafa Taha, bakery owner:
"The beginning was somewhat difficult like any beginning. There was no electricity nor water. But thank God, despite the struggle, we worked hard and the bakery is still working. Thank God. Everything is stable, we don’t have any problems."
8. Worker placing bread in bag
9. Bags of bread
10. Customer Aida al-Shiekh collecting bread
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Aida Al-Shiekh, Sudanese woman living in Shambat neighborhood:
"When people saw the bakery (working), when we saw a place that can provide us with food and drink, it felt that life was restored."
12. People getting bread
13. Workers inside bakery
14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mugahed Mohamed, Sudanese living in Shambat neighborhood:
"We experienced very difficult conditions and very tough events. Thank God, after the army returned and entered this area (Shambat neighborhood), we felt stability and we’ve gone back to safety and security. Thank God."
15. Worker packing bread in bag
16. Man placing bread in three-wheeled vehicle known locally as tuk-tuk
17. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohamed Ali, member of "We are All Values," a non-profit organization partnering with the U.N.’s World Food Program:
"We look forward to the World Food Program sustaining the delivery of food aid until the situation becomes stable and until everyone who is involved in business or wants to work in the market can open their shops and factories."
18. Workers inside bakery, baked bread on counter
STORYLINE:
Bread is such an essential part of life in Sudan that the reopening of a bakery in the battle-scarred Shambat neighborhood, north of Khartoum, has filled people with a sense of optimism.
Buildings in the neighborhood bear the scars of the fighting that broke out in Sudan in April 2023, and some of the most basic services are still missing.
But the smell of freshly baked bread coming from the local bakery after a nearly two-year-hiatus is giving Shambat residents hope.
"When we saw a place that can provide us with food and drink, it felt that life was restored," Shambat resident Aida Al-Shiekh said.
Hundreds of Shambat residents have returned to the area after the Sudanese army retook it from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), who controlled it until October.
Sudan was plunged into chaos in April 2023 when simmering tensions between the military and the RSF exploded into open warfare across the country.
The war has intensified in recent months, with the military making sweeping advances against the RSF in Khartoum and elsewhere in the country.
"We experienced very difficult conditions and very tough events. Thank God, after the army returned and entered this area, we felt stability," said resident Mugahed Mohamed.
Life remains very difficult in Shambat where basic services like electricity and water are largely inaccessible.
As an alternative to cooking gas, people in the neighborhood collect firewood to cook their meals.
Humanitarian organizations have been supporting people with basic foodstuffs including flour, cooking oil, lentils and beans through local organizations partnering with the U.N.’s World Food Program.
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