The Supply Ministry has so far reinstated 2.6 mn citizens to the country’s subsidy rolls after accepting their appeals against being removed from the subsidy system, Masrawy reports, citing two unnamed sources. The Ministry had alreadyreturned 1.8 mn citizens to the rolls last October and the ministry is currently looking into the rest of the cases. Around 6 mn grievances have been filed since the ministry began accepting them, the sources added. As of August, Egypt had purged some 8 mn citizens from the subsidy rolls, with plans for another 400k to be removed by September.

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