North Africa faces poultry production crisis

Footage showing the mass culling of chicks at multiple poultry farms has triggered an outcry among the Egyptian population, many of whom have to count the cost of calories in their diet to make ends meet. Fears are that the poultry industry in North Africa is being more severely impacted by the food crisis further to the disruption of Ukrainian grain exports and other challenges. Hashtag ‘chicken execution’ went viral in Egypt in October, shortly after a series of videos picturing the bru