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Egypt's food price crisis: 'How are we supposed to eat?'

Even the middle class cannot afford the constantly increasing food prices, saying that they don't know how long they can bear it
An Egyptian woman looks at goods at a supermarket in Cairo on 12 March 2008. Food prices have soared in Egypt since November 2016 (AFP)
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