According to three security and government sources, Reuters is reporting that Egypt’s biggest ever wheat tender, nearly 20 times its usual size, stemmed from food security concerns sparked by an intelligence briefing given to President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi. Egypt, one of the world’s biggest wheat importers, relies on the grain to produce subsidized bread for tens of millions of Egyptians. Successive governments have kept its price stable for decades to avoid public unrest but, in June, Sisi’s government hiked the price by 300 per cent.
Libya’s eastern-based government in Benghazi, under the control of forces loyal to military leader Khalifa Haftar, has approved a
Hundreds of thousands of Syrians who fled to Egypt during the civil war are now facing growing uncertainty following the
Interpol has issued a Yellow Alert (missing persons notice) for two young Irish boys abducted by their Egyptian father, BBC
Egyptian authorities have arrested two men accused of attempting to steal hundreds of ancient artifacts from the seabed, CNN reports.
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