By Maggie Fick CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's reform of its subsidized food system must do more to help the neediest if the government is to begin reducing "huge pockets of poverty", the top World Food Programme official in the country said on Monday. Failure to tackle those issues could revive popular discontent that has toppled two presidents in three years. But reform will be a tall order in the Arab world's most populous country, where some 68 million - about 75 percent of Egyptians - have ration cards that entitle them to such subsidizes, and where, according to U.N. ...
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