[Financial Times-UK] Heba Saleh - A wave of discontent has been sweeping through Egypt in response to mounting food prices and the return of long queues in front of bakeries selling subsidized bread. Various groups have been staging strikes and demanding higher pay to meet price increases of up to 50% for some basic foods. President Mubarak has ordered the army and police to use their bakeries to put more cheap bread on the market, as rice and pasta have become more expensive.
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