Sally the Camel is DINNER

Squeezed by higher costs and cash-poor butchers, middlemen at an Egyptian market wonder if they'll ever get over this hump.

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"I've been doing this for 29 years," says Ammar, who wears a white-lace cap and an even snowier pinstriped vest, a risky choice amid blowing dust and rubbish fires. "You have to know your camels, setting price to age. The best come from Sudan. The ones from Somalia don't adapt so well. I can tell if a camel will bite me or just run away. It is essential to know such things."

The traders around him, some with blood splotches on their tunics, nod.

LATimes: Egypt camel trade runs into the sand (Not one but TWO puns before the lede. Nice.)