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.

CAIRO, Jan 16 (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 ...

Asharq Al Awsat Egypt, often the world's biggest wheat importer, aims to achieve self-sufficiency in wheat for its heavily subsidized bread in 2028, Agriculture Minister Alaa Farouk told Reuters on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Bloomberg) -- Egypt needs to increase the price of subsidized bread to reflect its true cost to the government, Prime Minister ...

(This is the latest in a series of stories on rising world food prices and their consequences) By Cynthia Johnston CAIRO, April 6 (Reuters) - Abdel Nabi Salim's main job in life is queuing for bread.

In the gritty gusts of a sandstorm, men in turbans and women in veils stood uncomplaining for hours outside a ramshackle kiosk, lined up for their daily loaves of "life." Subscribe to read this story ...

In this Monday, May 13, 2013 photo, Rida Ibrahim, a 62-year-old Egyptian farmer, harvest wheat on his farm, in Qalubiyah, North Cairo, Egypt. Bread is perhaps the most volatile issue amid mounting ...

In a new book, former public media journalist Tony Ganzer explores the unexpected relationships between two of his passions. As he writes in the introduction, Kneading Journalism: Essays on Baking ...