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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
6/8/2022 1:00:44 PM
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday that Moscow was ready to ensure the safe passage of vessels from Ukraine as concerns mount over grain stuck in Ukrainian ports.
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World
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International
6/5/2022 2:30:36 PM
At the gates of the Black Sea, trade is in full swing as freighters and oil tankers sail from the heart of Istanbul to Russian and Ukrainian ports.
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Egypt
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Society
6/4/2022 6:18:09 PM
Egyptian officials denied on Saturday that Egypt was going to receive a shipment of Indian wheat coming from Turkey after being rejected by Turkish authorities for not meeting safety standards and specifications.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
6/3/2022 6:18:26 PM
African Union head Macky Sall said Friday he was "reassured" after talks in Russia with President Vladimir Putin on food shortages caused by fighting in Ukraine.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
6/3/2022 2:33:16 PM
African Union head Macky Sall on Friday urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to take into account the suffering in African countries from food shortages caused by the conflict in Ukraine.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
6/3/2022 1:33:59 PM
The Kremlin says that Ukrainian grain supplies to world markets will be part of the agenda for Russian President Vladimir Putin's talks with the chairman of the African Union, Senegalese President Macky Sall.
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Business
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Economy
6/2/2022 9:24:50 PM
Egypt’s General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC) announced on Wednesday that it has signed a contract to purchase 465,000 tons of wheat from Russia, Bulgaria and Romania in what is reportedly the country’s largest wheat purchase since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in late February.
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World
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Africa
6/2/2022 10:28:55 AM
The head of the African Union, Senegalese President Macky Sall, will speak with President Vladimir Putin in the southwestern Russian city of Sochi on Friday, Dakar said.
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War in Ukraine
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Humanitarian
6/1/2022 3:44:49 PM
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday called for quick and decisive action to ensure a "steady flow of food" as the war in Ukraine has disrupted global food and energy markets.
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War in Ukraine
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Economy
5/31/2022 4:18:48 PM
Russia, one of the world's top grain producers, is using export disruptions caused by sanctions to boost its reserves, the chairman of the country's grain union said Monday.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
5/30/2022 6:24:16 PM
Russian President Vladimir Putin told Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday that Moscow was ready to work with Ankara to free up maritime shipping blocked over the conflict in Ukraine.
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World
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Africa
5/30/2022 10:15:00 AM
It now costs Ayan Hassan Abdirahman twice as much as it did just a few months ago to buy the wheat flour she uses to make breakfast each day for her 11 children in Somalia's capital.
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Egypt
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Politics
5/29/2022 5:31:50 PM
Minister of Supply and Internal Trade Ali Moselhi told the Senate on Sunday that Egypt is doing its best to achieve greater self-sufficiency in wheat production, aiming “to meet 65 percent of domestic needs by the year 2024.”
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World
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Region
5/29/2022 10:30:01 AM
Salah Chelab crushed a husk of wheat plucked from his sprawling farmland south of Baghdad and inspected its seeds in the palm of one hand. They were several grams lighter than he hoped.
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Business
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Economy
5/26/2022 10:08:47 PM
Egypt has received around three million tons of wheat from local farmers since the start of harvest season in early April, Supply Minister Ali Moselhi told Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly during a meeting on Thursday, which amounts to nearly half the quantities the country targets from local market.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
5/26/2022 7:20:57 PM
Moscow is ready to make a "significant contribution" to averting a looming food crisis if the West lifts sanctions imposed on Russia over Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin said in a telephone call with Italy's Prime Minister Mario Draghi.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Economy
5/25/2022 11:42:00 AM
The search is on for alternatives to Russian and Ukrainian wheat, even as Egypt’s homegrown supply season will continue until the end of August.
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Business
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Economy
5/23/2022 9:21:18 PM
Heeding the warning signs before the Russia-Ukraine war, Egypt started its efforts to ensure that its required annual supply of wheat is secured. For this to happen, Egypt has had to increase its locally cultivated wheat and to diversify the sources of wheat imports.
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Egypt
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Society
5/19/2022 2:50:22 PM
Egypt currently has a strategic reserve of wheat that can cover domestic consumption for four months, the Egyptian Cabinet's media centre said on Thursday.
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Business
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Economy
5/16/2022 12:43:34 PM
Wheat prices surged to a new record high in European trading on Monday after India decided to ban exports of the commodity as a heatwave hit production.
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