Cairo | Oct. 28, 2026, 1:09 p.m. ET | 4 min read

A.M. measures the impact of Sudan’s runaway inflation in ladles of soup.

At the community kitchen where he volunteers in the capital, Khartoum, “we used to be able to give each person four or five spoons of stew,” says A.M., who the Monitor reached by phone, and who is being referred to by his initials because belligerents in the country’s civil war target relief workers and critics. “Now, we are giving everyone just a couple.”

Since May, the already-weak Sudanese pound has lost more than half of its value, disrupting food supplies and causing prices to skyrocket.…