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Egypt
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Society
3/6/2022 5:29:32 PM
The spike of wheat prices in international markets is expected to increase the cost of the country's imports of such strategic commodity by around EGP 12 to 15 billion surcharge, Egypt's Minister of Finance Mohamed Maait told Bloomberg Asharq on Sunday.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
3/5/2022 10:51:34 PM
Nearly 4,000 Ukrainian tourists have left Egypt for countries neighbouring Ukraine in the past few days, Egyptian Cabinet Spokesperson Nader Saad said on Saturday.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
3/1/2022 10:57:07 PM
Niveen Wahish and Sherine Abdel-Razek assess the financial fallout of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on Egypt
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
3/1/2022 5:43:46 PM
Egyptian farmers are expected to supply 5.5 million tonnes of wheat during the next season – 2 million tonnes more than they supplied in 2021 – according to Minister of Supply and Internal Trade Mohamed Moselhi.
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Egypt
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Politics
2/27/2022 8:08:54 PM
Egypt’s strategic reserves of basic food commodities – including wheat, rice, meat and poultry – will last for months, Egypt’s Minister of Supply and Internal Trade Ali Moselhi has affirmed to President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi.
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War in Ukraine
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Economy
2/25/2022 12:54:53 AM
The government of economically-battered Syria decided Thursday to cut spending in an effort to reduce the impact of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, concerned that oil and wheat prices could sharply increase, the state-owned news agency said.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
2/24/2022 3:05:00 PM
Egypt’s wheat import bill will likely be inflated on the back of the tensions between Russia and Ukraine.
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Egypt
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Politics
2/24/2022 12:41:00 AM
Egypt has reviewed plans to deal with the economic impacts of the Russia-Ukraine crisis that the country will possibly face, including on wheat imports, the flow of tourism, and petroleum prices.
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Business
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Markets & Companies
2/16/2022 1:59:45 PM
The crisis between Ukraine and Russia, two of the world's biggest wheat and corn producers, has sent the commodities' prices on a wild ride -- with anything from a diplomatic statement to rumor of a maritime blockade roiling markets.
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Egypt
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Politics
2/13/2022 10:38:18 PM
Egypt said it has diversified its wheat import sources including from the US, France, Romania, as well as Ukraine and Russia, warning that “skirmishes between the world's largest exporters of wheat and grain raises a state of uncertainty in the market."
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Egypt
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Society
2/7/2022 3:44:31 PM
Egypt plans to procure up to four million tonnes of wheat from farmers this season, up from 3.6 million tonnes procured last year, Minister of Supply and Internal Trade Ali Moselhi said on Monday, attributing the rise to the expansion in wheat cultivation, including in Toshka El-Kheir and Sharq El-Owainat.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
2/1/2022 10:46:41 PM
Egypt’s strategic wheat reserves are in excellent shape, allowing the government room to manoeuvre soaring global prices, experts tell Ahmed Abdel-Hafez
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Sports
1/25/2022 8:05:33 PM
AFCON has reached the quarter-finals where the remaining games will separate the wheat from the chaff, reports Alaa Abdel-Ghani
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Business
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Economy
1/25/2022 5:23:01 PM
Egypt will raise the local wheat procurement price for the harvest beginning in April by around EGP 670 ($42.66) per tonne amid a rise in global prices, Finance Minister Mohamed Maait said on Tuesday.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
11/18/2021 10:02:00 AM
The government is raising the price of the wheat it buys from farmers by 13 per cent to encourage them to cultivate more land.
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World
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Region
11/17/2021 11:52:39 AM
Iraqi wheat farmer Khamis Ahmad Abbas lost it all when his battle with drought forced him to abandon his land, pushing him into unemployment.
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World
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International
11/4/2021 10:36:00 PM
World food prices are the highest since July 2011, reflecting in part reduced wheat harvests by major exporters and higher palm oil prices, the United Nations' food agency said Thursday.
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World
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International
10/24/2021 2:52:39 PM
Afghanistan's Taliban government launched a programme to tackle hunger on Sunday, offering thousands of people wheat in exchange for labour.
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Business
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Energy
10/19/2021 11:55:00 AM
Power shortages are turning out streetlights and shutting down factories in China. The poor in Brazil are choosing between paying for food or electricity. German corn and wheat farmers can't find fertilizer, made using natural gas. And fears are rising that Europe will have to ration electricity if it's a cold winter.
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World
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Region
10/5/2021 11:16:11 AM
After Syrian farmer Abdelbaqi Souleiman lost his last wheat crop to a wildfire, he had hoped for a better harvest this summer. But this spring there was hardly any rain.
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