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Cairo official: Only deserving Duweiqa residents will get apartments
Egypt

Cairo official: Only deserving Duweiqa residents will get apartments

A governorate official said that residents of the informal Cairo neighborhood of Duweiqa will only be moved to 6th of…
Suspects deny role in Nile City towers violence
Egypt

Suspects deny role in Nile City towers violence

  Cairo prosecutors ordered Friday the detention of 17 suspects in the Nile City towers violence for four days pending…
Land rights, labor and violence in a Cairo slum
Egypt

Land rights, labor and violence in a Cairo slum

The death of five-year-old Amar Mohammed Salah as fire tore through his shack in Boulaq, a central-Cairo slum on 27…
Urban planner David Sims explodes myths on Cairo’s dysfunction
Environment

Urban planner David Sims explodes myths on Cairo’s dysfunction

What springs to mind when you think of Cairo? The gentility of Zamalek? The  bustle of downtown? The mercantile rush…
Crime on the rise, but are police to blame?
Egypt

Crime on the rise, but are police to blame?

Three days after President Hosni Mubarak stepped down, Egypt’s much-hated police force was redeployed after nearly three weeks of complete…
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