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TO GO WITH AFP WORLD INFLATION SERIES: Vendors sell "baladi" bread to Egyptians crowding an outlet in the Nile Delta city of Mahala, 140 kms north of Cairo, on April 6, 2008. Egypt is in the grip of a serious bread crisis brought on by a combination of the rising cost of wheat on world markets and sky-rocketing inflation. The price of bread has increased fivefold in private bakeries, creating panic in state-run bakeries that the staple may run out. Scuffles in bread queues are a daily occurrence, turning in recent weeks into violent clashes, leaving at least seven people dead, according to police. AFP PHOTO/CRIS BOURONCLE (Photo credit should read CRIS BOURONCLE/AFP/Getty Images)

TO GO WITH AFP WORLD INFLATION SERIES: Vendors sell "baladi" bread to Egyptians crowding an outlet in the Nile Delta city of Mahala, 140 kms north of Cairo, on April 6, 2008. Egypt is in the grip of a serious bread crisis brought on by a combination of the rising cost of wheat on world markets and sky-rocketing inflation. The price of bread has increased fivefold in private bakeries, creating panic in state-run bakeries that the staple may run out. Scuffles in bread queues are a daily occurrence, turning in recent weeks into violent clashes, leaving at least seven people dead, according to police. AFP PHOTO/CRIS BOURONCLE (Photo credit should read CRIS BOURONCLE/AFP/Getty Images)
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