Regional Updates MEDITERRANEAN/MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA/AFRICA – MEA REGION Egypt’s Prime minister says that the prices of essential goods will drop by 15 to 20 percent in coming days. He added that $4.5 billion of goods delayed in ports due to unavailable foreign exchange will now be released. Egypt’s wheat imports for 2023/24 are forecast to exceed 12 MMT which will once again make Egypt the largest world importer of wheat. Tunisia has received a $300 million loan from the World Bank to rebuild the grain sector that has been hard hit by years of drought. The loan will be managed through Tunisia’s Emergency Food Security Response Project. Tunisia is expected to import 555,000 MT of soybeans in 2024/25 alo...
What You Need to Know Today: Iran says its definition of the Strait of Hormuz is now a “vast operation area” that stretches from Jask to Siri Island. The White House said President Trump did not sign a suspension of the TRQs on beef imports but is “finalizing potential...
If the media headlines and Trump critics are to be believed, President Trump is headed to Beijing this Thursday in a weakened position. China is in control, it has the upper hand, and expectations are very low. These are the same critics that argue against overly simplistic zero-sum analyses in...
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