Resort cities in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula are being overrun by swarms of locusts, as a crippling diesel fuel shortage in the territory’s south is preventing crisis managers from deploying insecticide-spraying cars. The locusts are described as attacking cars. Meanwhile Egypt’s worst financial crisis since the 1930s has led to widespread food shortages and increased poverty rates, according to a report published by the World Food Programme (WFP). The organization’s Egypt director traces the origins of the country’s nutrition crisis back almost a decade, and notes that food insecurity has spiked in the last three years. The WFB discovered that more than half of the Egyptian children under age five who were surveyed were anemic, and that nationwide about 31 percent of children under five experienced stunted growth in 2011. Egypt’s incumbent president Mohamed Morsi ran partly on a platform of economic stabilization and reform, but once elected the Muslim Brotherhood-linked president spent political capital on promoting Islamist policies rather than on reforming Egypt’s heavily subsided economy.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 14:46:50 +0000
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