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.