Cairo is today a sprawling metropolis where a quarter of all Egyptians live and work. In a city where rain is seldom seen, life is lived on the street creating an endless bazaar where everything is for sale.
Selling food on the street has always been a precarious vocation for vendors – given that if they move their stalls they often lose their customers, but now they face an additional challenge.
In the last 12 months food inflation across the world has seen large increases in the prices of basic commodities.
A desperate shortage of staple foods, brought about partly by rising oil prices, has sparked riots around the world.
