Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – The Egyptian Ministry of Interior announced, on Tuesday, the arrest of a person for “alleging, during a video clip that was circulated on social media, regarding selling meat to citizens in installments.”
The ministry said, on its Facebook page: “A person was arrested in Damietta for claiming, during a video clip that was circulated on social media, regarding selling meat to citizens in installments, and by confronting him, he admitted that he prepared the aforementioned clip to increase viewership, to achieve financial profits, and legal measures were taken once morest him.”
It is noteworthy that, according to the report of the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics, the prices of meat and poultry increased by 20.6% during the month of January, and the price of a kilo of meat reached more than 200 pounds ($6.56), according to the prices of the Federation of Chambers of Commerce.
The annual urban inflation rate jumped to 25.8% in January, the highest level recorded since December 2017, affected by the repercussions of the global inflation wave, and the pound’s decline once morest the dollar by nearly 100% in a year.
According to Central Agency data, the consumer price index increased by 4.9% during January 2023 compared to December 2022, and the annual inflation rate for the entire republic reached 26.5% during the first month of this year.
A few months ago, the Egyptian government approved a package of foreign aid that cost the budget 130 billion pounds ($4.3 billion), which included the disbursement of exceptional aid to 9.1 million families from the most vulnerable groups for a period of 6 months, in addition to improving the structure of wages and pensions. A coalition of organizations and associations distributed Charity 25 million cartons for the most needy families.
