Lebanon seeks alternative wheat sources, bans some food exports amid war in Ukraine - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Al-Monitor Staff

Al-Monitor Staff

Mar 11, 2022

Lebanese workers pack fruits and vegetables. — Lebanese workers pack fruits and vegetables into crates and boxes for export at a warehouse in the town of Bar Elias in the Bekaa Valley, on April 23, 2015. — JOSEPH EID/AFP via Getty Images

A Palestinian employee works inside a wheat mill.

Egypt to see wheat imports resume from Ukraine, Russia

Al-Monitor Staff

Al-Monitor Staff

An Egyptian man arranges fruits at a shop in a market in Cairo, on March 17, 2022. Soaring bread prices sparked by Russia's invasion of Ukraine have bitten into the purchasing power of consumers in Egypt, a leading importer of wheat from the former Soviet states.

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People line up in front of a bakery to buy bread in Lebanon's southern city of Sidon on June 22, 2022.

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Egyptian men work in a bakery at a market in Cairo, on March 17, 2022.

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