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If it succeeds, the pilot project in the Suez Canal city of Port Said could be used as a model for food and fuel subsidy reform throughout Egypt, where bread, known in the local Arabic dialect as “life,” is the staple.

February 26th, 2014 - 03:55 GMT

Smart cards for Egypt's bread: achieving what was once rendered impossible?

A device resembling a credit card swiper is revolutionizing some of Egypt’s politically explosive bread lines and may help achieve the impossible – cutting crippling food import bills.