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04-10-2008, 10:48 AM
The line started forming before dawn, as soon as the day’s first call to prayer had faded from the trash-strewn streets of the Egyptian capital’s Zelzal neighborhood. Men began pounding on the green metal shutters of the district’s sole bakery.
“Aish! Aish!” - Bread! Bread! - the stubble-faced men yelled, shouting through the grillwork at bakers laboring over a dented, gas-fired oven. Cursing and pushing, the men thrust crumpled currency through the spaces in the grille.
“Have mercy! Have mercy on us!” a woman in a dusty black head scarf and abaya yelled.
Across Egypt this year, people have waited in line for hours at bakeries that sell government-subsidized bread, sign of a growing crisis over the primary foodstuff in the Arab world’s most populous country. President Hosni Mubarak* has ordered Egypt’s army to bake bread for the public, following the deaths of at least six people since March 17 - some succumbing to exhaustion during the long waits, others stabbed in vicious struggles for places in line. - fip (http://freeinternetpress.com/story.php?sid=16072)
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“Aish! Aish!” - Bread! Bread! - the stubble-faced men yelled, shouting through the grillwork at bakers laboring over a dented, gas-fired oven. Cursing and pushing, the men thrust crumpled currency through the spaces in the grille.
“Have mercy! Have mercy on us!” a woman in a dusty black head scarf and abaya yelled.
Across Egypt this year, people have waited in line for hours at bakeries that sell government-subsidized bread, sign of a growing crisis over the primary foodstuff in the Arab world’s most populous country. President Hosni Mubarak* has ordered Egypt’s army to bake bread for the public, following the deaths of at least six people since March 17 - some succumbing to exhaustion during the long waits, others stabbed in vicious struggles for places in line. - fip (http://freeinternetpress.com/story.php?sid=16072)
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