Food price rises put restive Egypt in risk
date:Mar 14, 2013
e past two months, owner Mohamad Zada said. The price of cooking oil has gone up on three occasions in that period.

There is a 20- to 30-percent increase in prices ... for everything, he told Reuters.

For now, Zada has not heard complaints from customers about the price rises, but Alfa has been careful to limit the price of its bread, even though this is eating into profits: People say changing the price of the bread would be a crime, he said.

The fall of the Egyptian pound has also become a
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