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A correspondent in Egypt

A correspondent in Egypt

Jun 14, 2022

Roger Anis/Getty Images — A man buys subsided Egyptian traditional bread using the smart-card bread subsidy system from a governmental stand on May 8, 2022, in Cairo, Egypt. — Roger Anis/Getty Images

A picture taken on Sept. 25, 2011, shows a worker loading palm oil fruits onto a lorry at a plantation in Bintulu Sarawak.

Egypt turns to Malaysia, Indonesia for vegetable oil amid food export bans

A correspondent in Egypt

A correspondent in Egypt

Women buy bread from a local bread stand in Al Fustat neighborhood on May 2, 2022, in Cairo, Egypt.

Egypt rejects World Trade Organization agreements on global food crisis

A correspondent in Egypt

A correspondent in Egypt

Egypt to switch to cash subsidies instead of bread

Ahmed Gomaa

A man holds his smart card and some coins at a bakery in the Suez Canal city of Port Said, 170 km (106 miles) northeast of Cairo, February 24, 2014. A device resembling a credit card swiper is revolutionizing some of Egypt's politically explosive bread lines and may help achieve the impossible -- cutting crippling food import bills. Authorities who hope to avoid protests over subsidised loaves sold for the equivalent of one U.S. cent have turned to smart cards to try to manage the corrupt and wasteful bread

Egypt's doubled rations no cause for celebration as prices set to soar

Walid Salah