date:Jun 26, 2014
ade available at 25,000 privately-owned grocery stores around the country partnering with the government for the programme.
Hanafi, who retained his position after Egypt's new president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi took office earlier this month, has been outspoken about the need to reform wasteful subsidies.
Sisi spoke cautiously on the topic during his campaign, saying it could only happen gradually, but has urged Egyptians to prepare to make sacrifices, apparently laying the ground for a period of