CAIRO (Reuters) – Cairo bus driver Mohamed Salame voted for Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in the hope he would fix Egypt’s manifold problems, but now he curses the new president for making life harder by hiking the price of the state-subsidised fuel vital to his livelihood.
With the economy reeling from more than three years of political turmoil, Salame says the reform couldn’t have come at a worse time. It cost him 80 Egyptian pounds ($11.19), double the usual amount, to run his 12-seater microbus on Saturday when the price rise was introduced.
“I have five kids, God only knows how I can pay my rent this month,” said Salame, 44, furious over the move which raised the price of gasoline, diesel and natural gas by up to 78 percent…
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