Riyadh, Saudi Arabia -- Baker Eid Ahmed just can't get away from Saudi Arabia's notorious heat: he makes bread next to a sweltering oven for 13 hours a day, only to step outside into summer temperatures that can soar past 45C. Armed with an ice-cold water bottle and a wet...
Baguettes fall victim to Tunisia’s economic woes
Around 200 Tunisian bakers stage a sit-in after a government decision to stop selling them subsidized flour, a move threatening the closure of hundreds of bakeries.
Tunisian bakers strike again over unpaid subsidies
Subsidies on basic goods are a highly sensitive political issue in Tunisia, where a public finance crisis has caused repeated shortages of subsidised flour, sugar and other basic goods. Tunisia is in the grip of a grinding economic downturn exacerbated by inflation that hit 9.8 percent year-on-year in December, according...
