Egypt assured citizens that bread prices will remain the same despite increasing the price of fuel, as the region eels form the global energy crisis.

Supply Minister Sherif Farouk confirmed on Tuesday that the price of subsidized (baladi) bread will remain unchanged at 20 piasters per loaf, despite a recent hike in fuel prices.

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.

Arab Finance: Minister of Supply and Internal Trade Sherif Farouk confirmed that the price of subsidized bread will not be affected by the recent hike in diesel prices, remaining unchanged at EGP 0.20 ...

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Egypt said ​it ‌would take ⁠precautionary "spending rationalisation ⁠measures" as the region reels ​from rising ‌energy prices ...

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.

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