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 (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 Monday.

Egypt will introduce a nationwide smart-card system for subsidized bread by July, in an attempt to trim waste in its massive government wheat-purchasing program. Through a state agency, the General ...

Since it was founded in 2012, the Cairo-based chainlet Zooba has expanded to six locations (and counting) in the city. It was made in the fast-casual mode, clearly built for scale, but when co-founder ...

CAIRO, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Egypt, the world's biggest wheat importer, faces a higher bill for bread subsidies in the next year but has adequate financial resources and stocks to avoid any rerun of the ...

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Egypt’s social protection system commands a large share of the state’s annual budget, but historically, its impact on poverty has been limited. A national database is being worked on that may help ...

Residents of Columbus, Ohio and Port Said, Egypt have more in common than they may realize. Locals from both cities are often the first in their countries to be exposed to new products and ...