Bread prices: Bakers set a date for their strike

Senegal’s four bakery unions say uncontrollable cost increases are making it impossible for bakeries to keep operating at a loss. After submitting a detailed memorandum to the prime minister and trade minister, they are touring the country and threatening to halt all bread production in the first week of November if the government takes no action. Their demands include a nationwide bread price of 200 CFA francs, or at least a 3,000 CFA franc reduction in the price of a flour sack, along with tax relief and reforms to clean up the sector.