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Egypt
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Politics
4/3/2022 11:56:39 PM
A report on the repercussions of the Russia-Ukraine war on food security in Egypt by an Egyptian NGO says that the current solutions adopted by the government will help in the short run, but long-term solutions are also needed.
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Egypt
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Society
4/1/2022 7:42:21 PM
Egypt's local wheat supply season started on Friday and will continue until the end of August 2022, announced Minister of Supply and Internal Trade Ali Moselhi.
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War in Ukraine
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Economy
3/31/2022 9:34:19 PM
Bombed out wheat fields, farmers gone to the front, supplies chains ruined.
Half of Ukraine's harvest this year, crucial to global food supplies, could be lost because of Russia's war, the country's agriculture minister warned in an interview with AFP.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
3/30/2022 10:19:58 PM
Russia's invasion of Ukraine is having a "deadly" impact and threatening security in the Arab world, particularly through spiraling wheat prices, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in Algiers Wednesday.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
3/26/2022 6:48:17 PM
Kazakhstan — a major wheat producing and exporting country — is working on establishing a logistics zone for free trade in Ain Sokhna port so that Egypt can become a logistics hub for the sale of Kazakh grain and other agricultural products.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
3/24/2022 7:27:00 PM
The government has announced new incentives for Egypt’s farmers to increase the available wheat.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
3/23/2022 10:00:00 AM
On Saturday, Minister of Supply and Internal Trade Ali Moselhi said commodity prices in the local market had not yet been affected by the Russian-Ukrainian war, and blamed recent price hikes on coronavirus pandemic-led global inflation.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
3/22/2022 8:30:47 PM
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World
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Africa
3/21/2022 5:07:09 PM
More than 80 percent of Sudan's wheat imports are at risk after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, an aid group warns, exacerbating economic and humanitarian crises that deepened after last year's military takeover.
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Egypt
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Politics
3/21/2022 4:40:33 PM
India — the second largest wheat producer in the world — is in final talks to start exporting wheat to Egypt, according to a recent statement by the Indian Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
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Egypt
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Society
3/21/2022 12:20:00 PM
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said that the state is exerting its utmost efforts to ameliorate the living conditions of Egyptians despite the fact that "our resources and income are not proportional to the population."
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Opinion
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3/18/2022 3:15:37 PM
The Ukraine war has captured widespread media attention in recent weeks, with news organisations providing wall-to-wall coverage and reports appearing on phones, televisions, radios, magazines, and newspapers.
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Egypt
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Politics
3/16/2022 4:58:25 PM
Egypt’s cabinet decided on Wednesday to grant wheat farmers an incentive of EGP 65 for each ardeb (1 ardeb is equivalent to 150kg) to encourage them to increase the quantities they sell to the Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade.
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Egypt
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Politics
3/15/2022 11:26:00 PM
The Egyptian wheat supply season will start by 1 April, instead of mid-April, to shore up the country's strategic reserves of the grain amid disruption of supply lines and global price hikes resulting from the Russian-Ukrainian war.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
3/15/2022 9:20:59 PM
Egypt’s main inflation rate hits its highest level in almost two and half years in February, reports Ahmed Kotb
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Egypt
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Society
3/15/2022 2:41:37 PM
A crisis committee to confront the impact of the current global crisis on strategic food commodities convened its first meeting on Monday chaired by Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly, ensuring that food prices will remain stable ahead of Ramadan, according to a statement by the Cabinet on Monday.
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War in Ukraine
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Economy
3/15/2022 7:00:00 AM
The United Nations chief warned Monday that Russia's war on Ukraine is holding ‘a sword of Damocles’ over the global economy, especially poor developing countries that face skyrocketing food, fuel and fertilizer prices and are now seeing their breadbasket ‘being bombed’.
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Business
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Economy
3/14/2022 1:19:16 PM
Households across North Africa are rushing to stock up on flour, semolina and other staples as food prices rise following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, both key wheat exporters to the region.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
3/14/2022 12:44:00 PM
The government says it will clamp down on traders who use the war in Ukraine to raise prices of basic commodities.
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Egypt
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Society
3/13/2022 10:05:50 PM
Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi called on the government on Sunday to offer farmers additional incentives to encourage them to deliver the largest possible amount of wheat during this agricultural season.
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