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World
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Region
4/13/2023 10:55:26 AM
A severe drought in North Africa has left Tunisian farmers bracing for a catastrophically poor harvest, imperilling food security in the cash-strapped country.
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World
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War in Ukraine
4/7/2023 4:28:46 PM
Moscow wants any Ukraine peace talks to focus on creating a "new world order", Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on a visit to Turkey on Friday.
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World
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Region
4/6/2023 10:06:21 PM
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in Turkey on Thursday, a Turkish official told AFP, for talks that include the future of a key deal that allows grain exports from Ukrainian ports through a safe corridor in the Black Sea.
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World
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Africa
4/6/2023 11:48:41 AM
Ugash Adan Abdulahi shook a jerry can. Inside rattled a few grains of sorghum -- the only food to last his family another 10 days in Kenya's overwhelmed Dadaab refugee camp.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
3/21/2023 8:33:49 PM
Magda Shahin argues against Egypt’s withdrawal from the UN Grains Trade Convention
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Business
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Economy
3/19/2023 2:58:27 PM
Egypt decided to withdraw from the decades-old United Nations Grains Trade Convention (GTC) because it had not received the desired benefits from the agreement during the Ukraine-Russia crisis, announced Minister of Supply and Internal Trade Ali Moselhi on Saturday.
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World
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War in Ukraine
3/18/2023 6:28:52 PM
An unprecedented wartime deal that allowed grain to flow from Ukraine to countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia where hunger is a growing threat and high food prices are pushing more people into poverty was extended just before its expiration date, officials said Saturday.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
3/14/2023 9:28:06 PM
Nader Noureddin presents his take on why Egypt has withdrawn from the UN Grains Trade Convention
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World
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War in Ukraine
3/13/2023 6:39:18 PM
Russia has agreed to renew the Ukraine grain export deal but only for another 60 days, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin announced following talks with the United Nations on Monday
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World
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War in Ukraine
3/13/2023 2:03:33 PM
The United Nations and Russia began talks Monday on renewing the Ukraine grain export deal, which has helped ease the global food crisis triggered by Moscow's invasion of its neighbour.
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Egypt
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Economy
3/10/2023 7:15:56 PM
The Egyptian government has given notice that it will withdraw from the United Nations Grains Trade Convention (GTC) by the end of June 2023, according to the official website of the multinational treaty.
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World
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War in Ukraine
3/7/2023 8:39:21 PM
Ukraine on Tuesday appealed for international efforts to keep open Black Sea shipping lanes used to carry millions of tonnes of grain to African nations.
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World
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International
3/2/2023 11:05:02 AM
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken demanded at a Group of 20 meeting attended by Russia that Moscow renew a UN-brokered deal to allow exports of Ukrainian grain, which expires this month.
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World
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War in Ukraine
2/19/2023 11:23:32 AM
The amount of grain leaving Ukraine has dropped even as a UN-brokered deal works to keep food flowing to developing nations.
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World
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Region
1/16/2023 1:04:23 PM
A cargo ship carrying Ukrainian peas ran aground in Istanbul due to a rudder failure Monday, briefly suspending traffic in the Bosphorus, officials said.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
1/13/2023 5:54:01 PM
Egypt is ready to host a global centre for the supply and storage of grain in cooperation with the international community in a way that helps face the ongoing food crisis worldwide, Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry has confirmed.
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World
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War in Ukraine
1/10/2023 9:16:06 PM
Ukraine's foodstuff exports reached 17 million metric tons since August under a deal on the export of grain and fertilizers from Black Sea ports, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported Tuesday.
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Business
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Economy
1/6/2023 5:46:58 PM
World food prices fell for a ninth month in a row in December but hit their highest level on record for the full year in 2022, UN data showed Friday.
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Egypt
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Society
12/29/2022 3:18:28 PM
The General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC), Egypt’s state grain buyer, has announced that it has contracted for 200,000 tons of Russian wheat under the World Bank-backed Emergency Food Security and Resilience Support Project.
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World
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War in Ukraine
12/28/2022 10:46:34 PM
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday named a retired Kuwaiti vice admiral as coordinator for the Black Sea Grain Initiative to manage grain shipments from war-torn Ukraine.
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