Egypt sugar imports hit by foreign currency shortage

Cairo

LAILA El-Sayed spent her afternoon searching grocery stores in Cairo's bustling Dokki district on the banks of the Nile River for one thing: sugar.

She managed to find two bags in a state-owned shop for 10 Egyptian pounds (S$1.57) per one-kilogramme bag, twice what she paid in August. In other parts of Cairo, shoppers stand in long queues as supermarkets limit customers to one or two bags of sugar.

"I drink tea an average of five times a day with two spoonfuls of sugar.…