bread subsidies

The successful roll-out so far of a new "smart card" system to distribute subsidised bread has been a major achievement…

Supply and Internal Trade Minister Mohamed Abu Shady denied rumors of the government's intention to cut back on public subsidies. Abu…

Attiya Hammad, head of the bakeries division within Cairo Chamber of Commerce, said the government intends to build 25 new…

Egypt has less than two months' supply of imported wheat left in its stocks, ousted President Mohamed Morsy's minister of…

Egypt is considering resuming wheat imports from Kazakhstan after a two-year hiatus, an adviser to the minister of supply said…

More than 1,2000 local bread bakeries, or for 70 percent of bakeries nationwide, have adopted the government's new subsidies scheme,…

Bread shortages are not new to Egypt, with the most acute crisis of the not-so-distant past occurring in 2008. Since…

Bakers who have threatened a strike that could affect the staple diet of the nation's poor said a meeting they…

Hundreds of bakery owners stormed into the headquarters of the Supply Ministry in Cairo, blocking Qasr al-Aini Street on Tuesday.…

All "reckless" bakeries that respond to calls for civil disobedience will be shut down, warned Supply Minister Bassem Ouda on…