A Moroccan family buys pasta at a supermarket in Rabat on April 4, 2008. During the first two months of 2008 prices in Morocco have risen, cooking oil by 8%, semolina for couscous by 12.1%, pasta by 8.7%, soft flour by 6.7%, hard flour by 17.3% and 14% for corn according to the Moroccan census bureau (HCP). In Egypt, there a serious bread crisis brought on by a combination of the rising cost of wheat on world markets and sky-rocketing inflation, and the price of bread has increased fivefold in private bakeries. EU Development Commissioner Louis Michel warned on April 8, 2008 that soaring prices of basic foodstuffs in Africa could cause a 'humanitarian tsunami'. Getty Images logo Getty Images 47 months ago

A Moroccan family buys pasta at a supermarket in Rabat on April 4, 2008. During the first two months of 2008 prices in Morocco have risen, cooking oil by 8%, semolina for couscous by 12.1%, pasta by 8.7%, soft flour by 6.7%, hard flour by 17.3% and 14% for corn according to the Moroccan census bureau (HCP). In Egypt, there a serious bread crisis brought on by a combination of the rising cost of wheat on world markets and sky-rocketing inflation, and the price of bread has increased fivefold in private bakeries. EU Development Commissioner Louis Michel warned on April 8, 2008 that soaring prices of basic foodstuffs in Africa could cause a 'humanitarian tsunami'.

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