Prices of the main staples, sorghum and millet, continued to increase in May 2024, rising by up to about 40 percent and reaching new record highs. Cereal prices began to follow a sustained increasing trend in late 2017 due to the difficult macroeconomic situation, coupled with high prices of fuel and agricultural inputs inflating production and transport costs. Heightened political instability since 2019 and the conflict since April 2023 exerted further upward pressure. Between March 2023, immediately before the conflict broke out in April, and April 2024, prices of sorghum and millet more than doubled. According to the FAO 2023 Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission Report, sorghum production in 2023 is estimated at about 3 million tonnes, 42 percent lower than in 2022 and 34 percent below the average of the previous five years, while millet output is estimated at about 683 500 tonnes, 64 percent lower than the output obtained in 2022 and 60 percent below average. The significant decrease in total cereal production in 2023 was mainly due to the impact of the ongoing conflict on agricultural operations through insecurity as well as the limited availability and high prices of agricultural inputs.