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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

Tunisia’s Saied Declares ‘War’ on Food Profiteering

Master baker Taoufik inspects bread at his bakery in the El Menzah area of the Tunisian capital. (AFP)

Tunisian President Kais Saied declared war Wednesday on food speculators amid a shortage of products such as wheat and semolina -- key staples in a country already mired in a political-economic crisis.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has threatened supplies of basic foodstuffs, particularly wheat which many Arab countries chiefly import from the two eastern European nations.

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