said that the number of slums in Egypt was over 1,000, with more than 300 of them in Greater Cairo. Egypt's slums exhibit a complete lack of urban planning and building control. The streets are ...

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A city that is made entirely from rubbish was visited by a YouTube travel expert, who was left 'surprised' by what he found - ...

Egypt will allocate LE1 billion of its annual budget in the 2015/2016 fiscal year to develop a number of urban slum areas, the planning ministry said in a statement on Saturday. The amount is part ...

Egypt peered over the edge of the abyss ... directing the mobs that swept out from Cairo’s unspeakable slums behind the great Moslem divinity school of Al-Azhar. At that point, the irresponsible ...

and also far from the downtown Cairo slums that some recently arrived Gazans are living in. Most Gazans who arrived in Egypt had spent all their money fleeing the genocide and lacked almost ...