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The military’s offensive in Kordofan continued this week with the capture of the strategic Jabal al-Dayer area near Rahad, building on last week’s gains that brought five towns and the Saderat Road linking Khartoum and Kordofan back under military control.
Military sources told Mada Masr the latest advance consolidates the military’s hold over southern and western North Kordofan while placing key routes into Rapid Support Forces-held areas in South Kordofan and West Kordofan under its control.
A senior military officer said that air strikes on remaining RSF positions in North Kordofan over the past week are also part of preparations for a simultaneous advance into the neighboring state.
Along the Chadian border, the RSF launched successive attacks on Bir Saliba and Hagar al-Marfaeen in West Darfur this week, but the military and allied forces repelled the assault after more than 12 hours of fighting. The area forms a key cross-border supply corridor linking the military’s positions in West Darfur with its operational bases in North Darfur.
In South Kordofan, a years-long dispute between the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North — the RSF’s ally led by Abdel Aziz al-Hilu — and one of its oldest constituencies, the Otoro tribe, has reached the movement’s seat of power.
Armed clashes broke out inside Kauda, its political and military headquarters, forcing residents to flee or shelter in their homes as markets, schools and public services shut down and transport into and out of the town came to a halt.
The confrontation is the latest stage in a dispute that began in 2022 over the SPLM-N’s moves to redraw administrative boundaries and reorganize tribal land ownership across the Nuba Mountains.
Since then, the disagreement has widened to include demands for greater political representation and participation in governing the movement’s territory, a member of the Otoro council of notables and a Kauda resident told Mada Masr.
Sudan’s grid collapsed for the third time in a week after a fault on a transmission line connected to the Merowe Dam triggered another nationwide outage.
Because damage from an RSF attack last year disabled voltage-control equipment at the dam and the war destroyed the grid’s central control facility, engineers said failures at individual stations can bring down the entire national network.
Those vulnerabilities were supposed to be addressed months ago, utility executives, engineers and officials in the energy and finance ministries told Mada Masr. But rehabilitation plans have remained frozen.
Merowe’s plan is not an exception. Across Sudan’s electricity sector, repair projects have piled up because public funds are absorbed by military operations and humanitarian response, and administrative reshuffles sometimes force procurement and approval procedures to start over.
Even if funding were released, the sector has steadily lost the engineers needed to carry out the work, driven out by the fighting and the rising cost of living, depriving the electricity system of what a former Energy Ministry official described as its “technical memory.”
Merowe’s electricity crisis is also putting the government’s wartime agricultural recovery plan at risk. Officials and engineers told Mada Masr that the plan to restore agricultural production in northern and eastern Sudan hinges on the same electricity infrastructure that has remained unrepaired, leaving farming dependent on electric-powered irrigation increasingly exposed to blackouts and load shedding during the peak growing season.
As the power crisis threatens irrigated farming, fighting that broke out in neighboring Ethiopia over the weekend is putting pressure on Gadarif, Sudan’s largest rain-fed farming state. Agricultural officials told Mada Masr that deteriorating insecurity along the border could disrupt planting, delay the movement of farming inputs and discourage financing at a critical stage of the growing season.
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Military builds on North Kordofan gains, prepares push into West Kordofan
An air force strike on Tina in North Kordofan, August 4. Courtesy: @sport6780 on Telegram
The military captured a strategic area near the town of Rahad in North Kordofan on Sunday, building on last week’s major territorial gains in the state and setting the stage for what military sources describe as the next phase of the campaign against the RSF in West Kordofan.
A military source told Mada Masr that military and General Intelligence Service forces seized control of Jabal al-Dayer, southwest of North Kordofan, during an operation that inflicted heavy losses in RSF personnel and equipment, forcing their troops to withdraw toward Abu Zabad in West Kordofan.
According to the source, control of Jabal al-Dayer strengthens the military’s grip over supply lines between Rahad and the state capital Obeid, while giving it commanding oversight of the roads leading into RSF-held areas of South Kordofan and West Kordofan.
The advance effectively places southern and western North Kordofan under military control, the source said.
An activist in Um Rawaba, east of Rahad, told Mada Masr that Sunday’s fighting amounted largely to a clearing operation, explaining that the RSF had not maintained a significant presence in the area but instead used it to launch raids on nearby villages aimed at looting property and intimidating residents. The activist added that the military had already retaken the Jabal al-Dayer camp, the main base of the military’s 10th Infantry Division in the area.
Jabal al-Dayer saw back-and-forth clashes in mid-July after RSF forces attacked villages to its west, including Musalamiya. The RSF has also used the area to launch drone attacks on Rahad, about 70 km from Obeid, and the road linking the two cities.
The military’s latest gain follows two weeks of rapid advances that have seen it consolidate control over six of North Kordofan’s eight localities, leaving only West Bara and Sodary as active fronts with the RSF. Last week, military forces retook the Saderat Road linking Omdurman with Bara after driving RSF forces from five towns that had served as one of the paramilitary group’s largest concentrations of personnel and military equipment in the Kordofan region.
A senior military officer said the military is still cataloguing large quantities of equipment seized when the military took Gabra al-Sheikh and Bara last week. Additional weapons and ammunition depots have been discovered over the past days in civilian homes and nearby villages, they added.
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Military troops seize RSF weapons and ammunition in a home in Gabra al-Sheikh, North Kordofan, August 4. Courtesy: @sport6780 on TelegramAugust 4. Courtesy: @sport6780 on Telegram
Over the past week, the air force struck RSF positions in Sodary, Tina, Nuhud and Um Bared as part of preparations for a broader offensive aimed at retaking the remaining RSF-held areas of North Kordofan while advancing simultaneously toward Um Samima, Khawi and Nuhud in West Kordofan, the senior military officer said.
The RSF, meanwhile, has been reinforcing its positions in Nuhud in an apparent attempt to slow the military’s advance. The Dar Hamar emergency room said RSF forces entered the city on Monday in a convoy that established positions at nine locations across neighborhoods.
Air force strikes targeted these positions the following day, forcing the group to withdraw west of the city, a military field source said.
According to the source, the military intends to draw RSF forces into sustained fighting in Kordofan, inflict heavy attrition and then launch decisive ground operations in an attempt to push toward Darfur.
That same confidence in a westward push was echoed this week by military Chief-of-Staff Yasser al-Atta. Addressing forces of the military-allied Revolutionary Awakening Council in Omdurman on Monday, Atta vowed the military would take back all territory held by the RSF before the end of the year through simultaneous operations on multiple fronts.
According to a senior source in the Revolutionary Awakening Council, led by Mahamid tribal leader Musa Hilal, the military has trained the group’s fighters, as well as forces led by former RSF commander Al-Nour “Gubba” Adam who defected earlier this year, in Omdurman and Northern State’s Dabba ahead of their deployment in support of military operations.
To preserve operational mobility across Kordofan, the military has continued reinforcing multiple fronts along the Saderat Road, deploying additional equipment and securing supply lines, the military field source said.
Videos circulated by Sudanese activists on Sunday showed the military parading newly acquired armored vehicles through the streets of Omdurman. Another military source told Mada Masr that the vehicles were part of an arms deal with Pakistan.
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Military repels RSF attempt to recapture West Darfur position along Chadian border
The military-allied joint force of armed movements repelled an RSF assault on the strategic border areas of Bir Saliba and Hagar al-Marfaeen in West Darfur on Tuesday, preserving its hold over a key crossing with Chad and a defense line against advances into North Darfur.
A field source in the joint force told Mada Masr that the RSF attacked the two areas in several successive waves, with clashes lasting more than 12 hours and involving both heavy and light weapons. Military drones played a decisive role in breaking up the assault, the source said.
The RSF is expected to renew its attack on Bir Saliba, as it continues mobilizing fighters from allied Arab tribal militias in the state capital Geneina and the nearby Jabal Moon and Kulbus areas, according to the source.
In a statement on the Tuesday operation, the joint force said it inflicted heavy casualties on RSF forces, destroyed military equipment and captured several combat vehicles. According to the alliance, Mahdy Jabal Moon, the commander of the attacking force and the RSF’s western axis operations commander, was killed during the battles.
Mahdy was regarded as one of the RSF’s most experienced field commanders. Before joining the RSF, he fought with the Justice and Equality Movement against government forces, gaining extensive battlefield experience and detailed knowledge of the Sudan-Chad border stretching across northern and western Darfur.
Located about 30 km north of West Darfur capital Geneina, Bir Saliba occupies a strategic position on the Sudan-Chad border, serving as a key supply corridor. Control of the area enables forces to monitor cross-border movement, prevent infiltration and flanking maneuvers, and secure routes leading north toward Gargira and Tina in North Darfur, where the military maintains major operational bases.
The area has changed hands several times since the war began. The military recaptured it on July 11 during a campaign that brought military and allied forces within reach of Geneina.
An RSF source told Mada Masr at the time that the group aims to retake the area before advancing toward the joint force’s main positions in Gargira and Tina.
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SPLM-N clashes with Otoro tribe inside Kauda
A village burns during clashes between the SPLM-N and the Otoro tribe near Kauda in South Kordofan, May 5. Courtesy: Nuba Mountains on Facebook
A years-long dispute between the SPLM-N (Hilu) and one of its oldest constituencies, the Otoro tribe, has reached the center of the movement’s authority this week.
Armed clashes broke out inside Kauda, the SPLM-N’s political and military headquarters in South Kordofan and the administrative center of the territory it has governed for decades.
Tensions first surfaced on Saturday, when a confrontation between the movement’s security forces and armed Otoro members triggered a series of security incidents across the town, according to a Kauda resident.
By Sunday morning, the standoff had turned into open fighting. Clashes began around the administrative quarter housing several of the movement’s military and civilian institutions before spreading to nearby neighborhoods and the main market, an Otoro member who defected from the SPLM-N’s army told Mada Masr. Exchanges of light and heavy weapon fire were followed by shelling heard across several neighborhoods, forcing residents to shelter in their homes or flee into the surrounding mountains, the source said.
Markets, schools and public services closed as transport into and out of Kauda ground to a halt. SPLM-N forces deployed across the town and established additional checkpoints around key facilities, according to a human rights source in a neighboring area.
The confrontation grew out of a four-year dispute over how the SPLM-N governs the territory under its control.
The first point of contention was land. In 2022, the movement sought to reorganize traditional administration across the Nuba Mountains by redrawing administrative boundaries and redefining hawakir, the customary system of tribal landholding. The reforms replaced borders traditionally marked by natural landmarks with fixed concrete markers.
Many Otoro rejected the plan, arguing that it encroached on ancestral land and weakened tribal authority. Community members dismantled many of the markers soon after they were installed.
The dispute later spread into the movement itself. Many Otoro serve in the SPLM-N’s army, and resistance to the reforms evolved into refusals to carry out orders. By March this year, the leadership was treating the dissent as mutiny, while Otoro officers withdrew into their home areas.
In May, the movement launched military operations in Otoro areas, saying it was pursuing “rebel elements.” The campaign left more than 60 people dead, including women and children.
The violence eased, but relations continued to deteriorate. According to a member of the Otoro council of notables, security agencies repeatedly detained and summoned community leaders and young men during June and July without clear legal procedures.
During the same period, Otoro demands expanded beyond the original land dispute to include greater representation in the SPLM-N’s civilian and military institutions. Many leaders opposed what they saw as an increasingly centralized system of governance that sidelined local communities and traditional authorities, according to a displaced Kauda resident who is now living in a military-held area in South Kordofan.
The armed mobilization from earlier this week was carried out in defense of the community against what the Otoro council member described as unilateral practices, calling for a restructuring of the civilian and security administration in SPLM-N-controlled areas.
But a political source in the SPLM-N defended the reforms, saying they are intended to unify civilian administration and stressed that they are being implemented in consultation with local communities.
A security source in the movement downplayed the scale of the violence in Kauda, describing the clashes as a limited security friction triggered by “unlawful elements.” The source said the leadership has dispatched a military committee to investigate and restore order, stressing its commitment to preserving communal peace, treating all social groups equally and ensuring that its security institutions continue operating in accordance with the laws and regulations governing the areas under its control.
The developments carry particular weight because the Otoro are among the movement’s historic constituencies, with many members fighting alongside the SPLM-N throughout its wars against successive Sudanese governments, according to a former SPLM-N military source. The source argues the fighting signals a weakening in the movement’s ability to manage internal disputes before they escalate into open confrontation.
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Third nationwide blackout in a week as financing impasse stalls electricity sector recovery
A substation of the Sudanese Electricity Transmission company in Khartoum, June 2019. Courtesy: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP
Sudan’s national grid has collapsed three times in a week. The latest outage began on August 1, when a fault on a transmission line connected to the Merowe Dam knocked out electricity nationwide. While supply has gradually been restored across much of the country, Khartoum, River Nile and Red Sea states remain without power, and engineers expect repairs to take at least another week.
The grid has become susceptible to nationwide outages since the destruction of its central control facility in Khartoum’s Soba neighborhood during the first weeks of the war. Instead of isolating faults, breakdowns at one generating station can cascade through the network before engineers restore supply piece by piece to areas not connected to the damaged infrastructure.
Since last year, Merowe, the country’s largest single source of electricity supplying an estimated 40 to 50 percent of national generation, has been at the center of that precarious system.
An RSF attack in January last year damaged Merowe’s voltage-regulation equipment that allows its electricity to be safely integrated into the national grid, an operations engineer at the dam told Mada Masr. Although the turbines themselves remain operational, engineers cannot run the station at full capacity without risking a nationwide collapse, thus prioritizing transmission lines supplying Khartoum, River Nile and Red Sea states only.
Aftermath of drone attack on Merowe Dam power station. January 13, 2025. Courtesy: Sudan Tribune
Those stopgap measures are now increasingly strained. Summer demand is surging as military-held cities are accommodating millions of Sudanese who have returned since the government launched its “voluntary return” campaign last year on promises that electricity, water and other basic services would gradually be restored.
Instead, rolling blackouts are one of the most persistent grievances among residents and a reminder of the gap between those promises and the state’s ability to deliver. With Sudan still deep in war, state spending remains overwhelmingly directed toward military operations and humanitarian response, leaving long-planned repairs unfunded.
A rehabilitation plan for the damaged systems at Merowe Dam and sections of Khartoum’s network has been waiting for implementation for months, according to a source at the Sudanese Electricity Transmission Company.
While officials have largely blamed the crisis on wartime destruction, engineers, utility executives and officials in the energy and finance ministries told Mada Masr that the challenge facing the sector is not just fixing damaged facilities and equipment, but rebuilding a national grid while the war is still consuming public finances, disrupting state institutions and driving skilled engineers out of the sector.
Many Sudanese believe the Merowe Dam has completely shut down, the engineer at the dam said. But “the plant can generate far more electricity than it is producing now. Yet the grid in its current condition cannot handle the additional load,” they explained.
Technically, engineers know how to fix that problem. A three-phase rehabilitation program was drawn up to restore the damaged systems at Merowe and Khartoum. According to the engineer, the phases are: replacing damaged equipment, carrying out operational and load-stability tests and then rehabilitating sections of the transmission network, including power lines and substations.
The first phase was supposed to begin in January. Instead, eight months later, the entire project remains on hold, the engineer said.
There are no engineering obstacles to implementation, they added. Contracts for the main equipment had already been finalized, technical specifications completed and procedures with contractors concluded. “Technically, we were fully prepared,” the engineer said. “The problem is purely financial. The project has been waiting for funding to be released and the required approvals [for the allocations] have yet to come through.”
According to an administrative official at the holding company, “the file has been moving back and forth between the Energy and Petroleum Ministry and the Finance Ministry, while the grid continues operating under the same conditions.”
Merowe and Khartoum’s plan is not an exception. Across Sudan’s electricity sector, rehabilitation projects have piled up because of stalled financing, a former official at the Sudanese Electricity Holding Company told Mada Masr.
The holding company submitted a proposed 2026 budget of around 1.874 trillion Sudanese pounds — about US$375 million — to the Finance Ministry, an official in the company’s general administration told Mada Masr, describing it as the minimum required to keep the sector functioning.
Most of the requested funding is earmarked for spare parts, maintenance of generating stations, repairing transformers and transmission lines and meeting obligations under contracts signed last year, as emergency repairs continue to take precedence over modernizing the grid, the official added.
Technical departments completed most of the required studies and engineering work over the past year, yet implementation has remained pending before the Finance Ministry, forcing utilities to continue relying on temporary spending allocations, the former official said.
The electricity sector has always depended on the state to finance both investment and operations. Historically, the Finance Ministry covered around 80 percent of the sector’s spending, while electricity companies relied on their own revenues to meet only a limited share of day-to-day costs, according to a former Finance Ministry official.
The war has upended that model. Government revenues have collapsed while military and humanitarian spending has soared, forcing the Finance Ministry to shelve infrastructure projects, including those in the electricity sector, the former official said.
The funding crisis has been compounded by the utilities’ own deteriorating finances. Less than half of the electricity consumed nationwide is now paid for, according to a senior official at the Sudanese Electricity Distribution Company. Entire regions have fallen outside the billing system because of the war, while electricity theft and the collapse of economic activity across several states have further eroded collections, leaving utilities with even fewer resources for routine maintenance.
Officials sought to narrow the gap by raising electricity tariffs. But the increases were blocked by the Transitional Sovereignty Council and the Cabinet before they could take effect, a senior official at the Sudanese Electricity Holding Company said.
According to an official in the Energy Ministry’s financial planning department, plans to rehabilitate the sector have also been slowed by repeated administrative reshuffles inside the ministry itself. While engineering teams completed projects on schedule, frequent leadership changes and files shuttling between institutions repeatedly delayed approvals, sometimes forcing procedures to start over.
The delays are a problem in their own right, according to three technical sources and a planning engineer in the electricity transmission sector.
The national grid is now operating every day under loads that exceed what its damaged infrastructure can reliably carry, the technical sources said. Every month rehabilitation is postponed brings new transformer failures and transmission line faults, while the eventual cost of repairs continues to climb as equipment and shipping prices rise, according to the sources.
“The current faults are not static,” the engineer said. “Every day the grid operates in this condition, new failures emerge, meaning repairs a year from now will cost far more than they would have when we first prepared the plan.”
At the same time, the sector has been steadily losing the people needed to carry out that work. Since the war began, hundreds of engineers and technicians have left Sudan’s electricity companies. Some were displaced by the fighting, while others moved abroad or into the private sector as salaries collapsed in value and professional training programs were suspended. The departures have left technical departments increasingly short-staffed in a sector that depends heavily on accumulated institutional experience.
A representative of electricity sector employees said the worsening cost of living is one of the main drivers of the exodus. “An engineer who, years ago, used to be able to support a family on their salary can no longer meet basic needs,” the representative told Mada Masr. “Many left not because they wanted to abandon the sector, but because they could no longer afford to stay.”
According to an official in the human resources department of the Sudanese Electricity Holding Company, utilities have lost many of the engineers responsible for operating power stations, maintaining transmission lines and managing grid protection systems. Some departments are now operating with only a fraction of the staff they require. Others have lost engineers with decades of experience, slowing responses to equipment failures and undermining routine maintenance.
These losses are not being replaced as recruitment has largely been frozen since the war began, the official said. Nor can the problem be solved with a few new young engineers.
“This sector depends on accumulated experience,” the official said. “Operating power plants or managing a national grid requires years of practical training. You cannot replace an engineer with decades of experience simply by hiring a new graduate.”
Moreover, technical training has all but stopped, according to the head of training at the Sudanese Electricity Transmission Company. Funding shortages, travel restrictions between states and the suspension of partnerships with foreign training institutions have halted specialized programs in grid operations, protection systems and transformer maintenance over the course of the war, they added.
“Today we are relying only on the staff we already have,” the training department chair said. “The transfer of knowledge to the next generation has stopped, and that will create an even larger gap in the years ahead, even if the war were to end tomorrow.”
Power stations and transmission lines can be reconstructed within months if funding is available, a former Energy Ministry official said. Rebuilding institutional knowledge will take far longer, since many of the engineers who have left served as “the technical memory” of the electricity sector, they added.
If the exodus continues, the official said, Sudan will become increasingly dependent on foreign expertise, driving up costs while further weakening the capacity of its own institutions to manage the country’s electricity system.
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Stalled grid repairs put planting season at risk
The electricity sector’s crisis is spilling into one of the government’s most important wartime recovery strategies: reviving agricultural production.
The government is counting on this year’s planting season to offset the sharp decline in agricultural output caused by the war and reduce food imports, an agricultural economist and a source at the Agriculture Ministry told Mada Masr. The plan hinges on expanding cultivation in Northern, River Nile, Gezira, Sennar and White Nile states, where electric-powered irrigation has become central to farming since the Merowe Dam entered service nearly two decades ago.
With much of Darfur and Kordofan’s agricultural land forced out of production by the war, northern and eastern Sudan are expected to shoulder a greater share of the country’s food supply, the ministry source said. But that strategy depends on reliable electricity to power irrigation systems.
That leaves the fate of the agricultural season tied to the same rehabilitation projects that have remained stalled for months. Without repairs to Merowe’s damaged systems and the transmission infrastructure linking the dam to the national grid, managing electricity demand during the peak irrigation season will become increasingly difficult, a senior engineer at the Sudanese Electricity Transmission Company said. Any further failures could force utilities to extend scheduled power cuts to transmission lines supplying major agricultural projects, they warned.
Keeping electricity flowing to cities and critical infrastructure has become the network’s overriding priority, an operations engineer told Mada Masr, echoing the same concern that this would leave agricultural schemes exposed to load shedding during periods of peak demand.
Many farms are already contending with repeated outages and voltage fluctuations as the electricity network comes under increasing strain. Agricultural transformers are operating beyond their design limits, while utilities lack the funds to replace them or carry out preventive maintenance, the engineer said.
The problem is not only that the power goes out, a technical official in the Northern State electricity administration said. Voltage drops can burn out irrigation pumps that farmers need to run for hours at a time. Even brief interruptions can reduce yields, particularly for wheat, sorghum and vegetables that depend on regular watering.
A farmer in Northern State said that when electricity is cut during irrigation, farmers either have to run private generators or wait for the power to return. That disrupts irrigation schedules and increases both water and fuel consumption at a time when fuel prices have hit record highs. Smaller scale farmers, they added, are often unable to afford backup generators, leaving them particularly exposed if outages persist through the height of the season.
The repeated outages, which drive up operating and maintenance costs for agricultural schemes, prompt many producers to scale back cultivated areas or shift to less productive crops that carry lower irrigation risks, the agricultural economist said.
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Ethiopia fighting threatens Sudan’s largest rain-fed farming state
A farmer checks fields of sorghum, sesame and maize in Gadarif, 2016. Courtesy: Hannah McNeish/The Guardian
As the power crisis threatens irrigated agriculture, renewed fighting in neighboring Ethiopia is threatening Sudan’s most productive rain-fed farming state.
Gadarif is Sudan’s largest producer of sorghum and a major source of sesame, sunflower and millet, accounting for an estimated 30 to 40 percent of the country’s rain-fed grain harvest in good seasons. Any disruption there would have immediate implications for national food security as well as agricultural exports.
Fighting broke out over the weekend between Ethiopian federal forces and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front in Western Tigray villages near the Sudanese border. Although the clashes remain inside Ethiopia, Sudanese authorities have raised military readiness along the border amid regional concerns the conflict could spread.
The heightened alert has coincided with the opening weeks of the planting season, a Gadarif State agriculture official told Mada Masr.
Farmers near the border — particularly in Greater and Lesser Fashaga and areas bordering Gallabat and Basunda localities — are now reluctant to cultivate their usual land for fear that a deterioration in security could cut off access to their fields. Continued violence inside Ethiopia could spill over by disrupting roads used for agricultural operations or prompting tighter security restrictions during the most critical months of the season, the official said.
Gadarif’s stability is central to the government’s strategy for boosting grain production after the war pushed large parts of Darfur and Kordofan out of production, a former Agriculture Ministry official told Mada Masr. Any deterioration in security, they said, would affect Sudan’s national food balance.
It is also Sudan’s main source of sesame exports, one of the country’s most important foreign-exchange-earning crops.
The implications also extend into the agricultural supply chain. Gadarif serves as the main distribution hub for fuel, seeds and fertilizer destined for thousands of rain-fed projects, and agricultural machinery and seasonal labor also pass through the state.
Prolonged security restrictions along the border could increase transport costs, delay the delivery of farm inputs and disrupt planting schedules that depend on the seasonal rains, according to an official at an agricultural services company.
Producers also fear that uncertainty will deter investors from financing the season, particularly in border areas where investment decisions are closely tied to security conditions, a banker specializing in agricultural finance said. Rising security risks translate directly into higher financing costs and could prompt banks to scale back agricultural lending or tighten borrowing conditions, they added.
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The post Sudan Nashra: Military builds on North Kordofan gains, prepares push into West Kordofan, repels RSF attempt to recapture West Darfur position along Chadian border | SPLM-N clashes with Otoro tribe inside Kauda | Third nationwide blackout in a week as financing impasse stalls electricity sector recovery | Stalled grid repairs put planting season at risk | Ethiopia fighting threatens Sudan’s largest rain-fed farming state first appeared on Mada Masr .
Sudan Nashra: Military builds on North Kordofan gains, prepares push into West Kordofan, repels RSF attempt to recapture West Darfur position along Chadian border | SPLM-N clashes with Otoro tribe inside Kauda | Third nationwide blackout in a week as financing impasse stalls electricity sector recovery | Stalled grid repairs put planting season at risk | Ethiopia fighting threatens Sudan’s largest rain-fed farming state
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