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How Cairo reached the breaking point

Cairo is one of the largest cities on Earth — and one of the most strained. Extreme air pollution, relentless traffic, water ...
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Egypt’s economy stabilises, but poverty challenges persist

Investments boost Egypt’s economy, but rural poverty highlights unequal benefits from economic recovery efforts.
Human Rights Watch

Egypt: Repression, Rising Poverty in Sisi’s Second Decade

(Beirut) – The government of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Egypt entered its second decade with wholesale repression, systematically detaining and punishing peaceful critics and activists, Human ...
StamfordAdvocate

Poverty and inflation: Egypt's economy hit by global turmoil

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Stores are selling winter clothes from last season in the middle of summer. Repair shops lack spare parts for appliances. There's a waiting list to buy a new car.
WRAL

A new city is rising in Egypt. But is it what the country needs?

(CNN) — In an expanse of desert 30 miles east of Cairo, Egypt, a new city is rising. Already boasting the tallest tower in Africa and the biggest cathedral in the Middle East, the city is one of a ...
Newsweek

Satellite Image Shows Construction of Egypt’s New Capital

In the vast deserts of North Africa, a new city featuring the tallest tower on the continent and the largest cathedral in the Middle East is taking shape. Thirty miles east of Cairo, Egypt, the ...
Time

‘No Glimmers of Hope’: Two Years After Egypt’s Revolution, an Economic Crisis Looms

Ramadan Khalaf Amin, 24, a microbus driver who earns the equivalent of $4.50 a day, is one of the myriad faces of the Egyptian revolution the world does not know. “I was going down to Tahrir the whole ...