The purchase was for 180,000 tns from Black Sea and Balkan area and the biggest purchase since Dec, after which Egypt's economic crisis curtailed buying. They are the world's largest importer of wheat.
Meanwhile the government teeters. Better that demonstrators at least have something in their stomachs.
http://www.agrimoney.com/news/egypt-makes-biggest-wheat-purchase-of-2013--6007.html
