{"id":3710,"date":"2014-07-07T09:54:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T02:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3710"},"modified":"2014-07-07T09:54:25","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T02:54:25","slug":"tempers-fray-prices-rise-as-egypt-cuts-fuel-subsidies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/tempers-fray-prices-rise-as-egypt-cuts-fuel-subsidies\/","title":{"rendered":"Tempers fray, prices rise as Egypt cuts fuel subsidies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAIRO (Reuters) &#8211; Cairo bus driver Mohamed Salame voted for Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in the hope he would fix Egypt&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>With the economy reeling from more than three years of political turmoil, Salame says the reform couldn&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have five kids, God only knows how I can pay my rent this month,&#8221; said Salame, 44, furious over the move which raised the price of gasoline, diesel and natural gas by up to 78 percent&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Egypt News\" href=\"http:\/\/en.aswatmasriya.com\/news\/view.aspx?id=f5fd7632-7a13-426d-8aeb-6fb93d78b58d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAIRO (Reuters) &#8211; Cairo bus driver Mohamed Salame voted for Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in the hope he would fix Egypt&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,1732,4697,415,257,4694,2256,2257,254],"class_list":["post-3710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-al-sisi","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-political-turmoil","tag-raised-the-price-of-gasoline","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}