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Iran war threatens Sudan's already fragile agricultural sector

France24 · 🇫🇷 public France · · 248 words · By Video by Clémence WALLER
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Claim 1: “As the US's conflict with Iran continues to block crucial shipping lanes”
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Multiple sources confirm the conflict. Wikipedia explicitly mentions the '2026 Iran war' involving the US and Israel, and web search results describe Iranian officials warning that shipping lanes will remain shut and analysts speculating on US blockades of ships.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On April 12, 2025, Iran and the United States began a series of negotiations aimed at reaching a nuclear peace agreement, following a letter from US president Donald Trump to Iranian supreme leader Al…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025–2026_Iran–United_States_n…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel have been engaged in a war with Iran and its regional allies. The conflict, sometimes referred to as the Third Gulf War, began when the US and Isra…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Relations between Iran and the United States in the modern day are unsettled and have a troubled history. They began in the mid-to-late 19th century, when Iran was known to the Western world as Qajar …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–United_States_relations
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Claim 2: “Sudanese farmers are warning it is disrupting food production in an already unstable nation”
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Two independent web sources explicitly link the Iran conflict to a global and regional food crisis, specifically mentioning that the consequences are reverberating globally and threatening food systems.
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web search NEUTRAL — The crisis has shifted from a fiscal contraction toward fears about a humanitarian crisis following Iranian strikes on desalination plants—the source of 99% of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_impact_of_the_2026_Ir…
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web search NEUTRAL — Mar 13, 2026 · The consequences of the Iran conflict, which are already being felt in the region, will reverberate globally as an exacerbated food crisis ...
https://www.cfr.org/articles/the-iran-wars-hidden-front-food…
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web search NEUTRAL — Mar 19, 2026 · As violence escalates, displacement, rising prices and disrupted food systems are pushing families closer towards hunger in the region and ...
https://www.wfp.org/stories/why-middle-east-conflict-threate…
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Claim 3: “The country is still in the midst of a war between the army and the RSF paramilitary”
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Wikipedia and multiple authoritative trackers confirm the ongoing civil war in Sudan between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) starting in April 2023.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Rapid Support Forces (RSF; Arabic: قُوَّاتْ الدّعْمْ السَّرِيعْ, romanized: Quwwāt ad-daʿm as-sarīʿ) are a Sudanese paramilitary force formerly operated by the Sudanese government. They originated…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_Support_Forces
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF; Arabic: القوات المسلحة السودانية, romanized: Al-Qūwāt Al-Musallaḥah as-Sūdāniyah) are the military forces of the Republic of Sudan. The force strength has been estimate…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudanese_Armed_Forces
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Territory of the Rapid Support Forces refers to the areas controlled by the Rapid Support Forces from 2023 until 2025, until the founding of the Government of Peace and Unity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territory_of_the_Rapid_Support…
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Claim 4: “fuel and fertilizer price hikes are forcing cutbacks in summer planting”
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Two separate web search results explicitly state that fuel and fertilizer price hikes linked to the Iran war are threatening Sudan's harvest and causing price spikes in urban areas.
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web search NEUTRAL — Sudan-Rising fuel and fertilizer prices linked to the conflict involving Iran are threatening Sudan’s upcoming harvest season, farmers and agricultural experts say, raising the prospect of deeper food…
https://www.millichronicle.com/2026/05/67760.html
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web search NEUTRAL — Food crops and animal fodder were to be grown for Middle Eastern importers. Electricity consumption in urban centres was transformed; production in Sudan was boosted by thousands of megawatts. The reg…
https://theconversation.com/sudans-conflict-has-its-roots-in…
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web search NEUTRAL — Few know better the pain of hunger than farmers. Even in Sudan’s urban areas, vegetables and dairy have risen by about 40 per cent due to fuel price spikes.
https://www.siasat.com/sudan-farmers-fear-hunger-crisis-as-i…
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