Insights and Stories of maha-el-dahan

After blast, Lebanon has less than a month’s grain reserves

Aug. 5, 2020 at 4:40 pm CDT

Beirut/Dubai | Reuters — Lebanon’s main grain silo at Beirut port was destroyed in a blast, leaving the nation with less than a month’s reserves of the grain but enough flour to avoid a crisis, the economy minister said on Wednesday. Raoul Nehme told Reuters a day after Tuesday’s devastating […]

Saudi Arabia completes first phase of flour mill privatization

Jul. 8, 2020 at 5:45 pm CDT

By maha-el-dahan Saeed Azhar Tom Arnold

G3 co-owner SALIC looking at Iraq farmland

Feb. 15, 2018 at 1:41 pm CST

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Egypt’s wheat imports again uncertain as ergot ban looms

Jun. 6, 2017 at 5:56 pm CDT

By Eric Knecht maha-el-dahan

Egypt stocks up on strategic commodities ahead of devaluation

Oct. 5, 2016 at 12:17 pm CDT

By Eric Knecht maha-el-dahan

Health ministry decision makes zero ergot Egypt’s new normal

Sep. 6, 2016 at 12:43 pm CDT

Abu Dhabi/Cairo | Reuters — Egypt’s health ministry banned wheat with any ergot fungus on Monday, a decision traders said signals the zero tolerance policy that wreaked havoc on the country’s grain purchases earlier this year is back to stay. The decree, seen by Reuters, brings the ministry in line […]

By Eric Knecht maha-el-dahan

Egypt’s GASC cancels wheat tender as ergot policy bites

Aug. 31, 2016 at 7:56 pm CDT

Cairo/Abu Dhabi | Reuters — Egypt’s ability to buy wheat from abroad while demanding zero ergot fungus in shipments was dealt a serious blow on Wednesday, with state grain buyer GASC cancelling its tender after receiving just one offer. It was the country’s first tender to purchase wheat since it […]

By Eric Knecht maha-el-dahan

Egypt bans ergot in wheat, again

Aug. 29, 2016 at 7:09 pm CDT

Cairo/Abu Dhabi | Reuters — Egypt reinstated on Sunday a controversial ban on wheat shipments containing even the slightest amount of a common grain fungus, baffling traders who had returned to the Egyptian market just last month when the ban was lifted. The world’s largest wheat importer said on Sunday […]

By Eric Knecht maha-el-dahan

Egypt’s wheat corruption scandal takes down supply minister

Aug. 25, 2016 at 2:01 pm CDT

Cairo/Abu Dhabi | Reuters — Egypt’s Minister of Supply Khaled Hanafi has resigned amid the highest-profile corruption case since President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi came to power in 2014. Hanafi’s resignation is the most senior-level fallout from a probe into whether millions of dollars intended to subsidize farmers were used to […]

By Eric Knecht maha-el-dahan

Egypt returns to zero tolerance of ergot in wheat

Jun. 8, 2016 at 2:00 pm CDT

Abu Dhabi/Cairo | Reuters — Egypt has rejected two shipments of wheat for containing trace levels of the ergot fungus, backtracking on a government pledge to apply international standards and alarming traders looking to do business with the world’s largest buyer of the grain. Earlier this year traders boycotted state […]

By Eric Knecht maha-el-dahan

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Insights and Stories of maha-el-dahan

After blast, Lebanon has less than a month’s grain reserves

Saudi Arabia completes first phase of flour mill privatization

G3 co-owner SALIC looking at Iraq farmland

Egypt’s wheat imports again uncertain as ergot ban looms

Egypt stocks up on strategic commodities ahead of devaluation

Health ministry decision makes zero ergot Egypt’s new normal

Egypt’s GASC cancels wheat tender as ergot policy bites

Egypt bans ergot in wheat, again

Egypt’s wheat corruption scandal takes down supply minister

Egypt returns to zero tolerance of ergot in wheat

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