For decades, vendors sold subsidized Egyptian baladi bread for almost nothing in Al-Sayeda Zeinab market, a bustling hub for Cairo's working class. One day in April, there was suddenly no baladi.

CAIRO, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Egypt's government will start selling discounted bread to people not enrolled in its bread subsidy programme as it battles accelerating inflation, the supply minister said on ...

(Bloomberg) -- Egypt needs to increase the price of subsidized bread to reflect its true cost to the government, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said. Madbouly, speaking during a tour of an Alexandria ...

Russia’s war on Ukraine is disrupting global grain supplies. Restrictions on navigation in the Azov Sea and the closure of ports have interrupted grain shipments from Russia, the world’s largest wheat ...

(This is the latest in a series of stories on rising world food prices and their consequences) By Cynthia Johnston CAIRO, April 6 (Reuters) - Abdel Nabi Salim's main job in life is queuing for bread.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt has set a fixed price for unsubsidised bread in an effort to counter rising food prices after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine closed off access to lower-priced Black Sea wheat.

A new a smart card system for the distribution of subsidized bread is cutting wheat consumption and alleviating government waste and foreign services. The pilot started last year in an attempt to find ...

Hundreds of Egyptians in a number of cities, including Alexandria, Minya, Desouk and the working class Imbaba district of Cairo turned out on Tuesday to protest severe cuts to bread subsidies. Videos ...

The rising price of bread was one reason Hosni Mubarak lost power in Egypt. Food inflation is one reason his replacement, Mohammed Morsi, also lost the job. "Egypt is the largest importer of wheat in ...