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 ...

(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.

Atyat Musa Bakri, a Cairo mother of nine children, was waiting in line to buy subsidized bread for the third time in one day. "The more cheap bread I can get, the better," she said as a crowd of about ...

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 ...

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 ...

First attempt in 44 years to hike subsidised bread price Roughly 30% of Egyptians live on less than $55 a month When or by how much bread price to rise remains unknown Price sensitive after deadly ...

Egypt has set maximum prices for unsubsidised bread sold in private bakeries, reviving price controls on staple food as the government ‌seeks to limit the impact on consumers of an expected rise in ...