Over 16 million Egyptians live in inhumane conditions, while over six million formal housing units have been reported vacant; housing advocates warn that slum crisis could get worse More than 16 ...

A man on a donkey cart makes his way under a billboard ad for a gated compound, near a wall that separates the ring road from slum area in Cairo. — Archives An elevated view of a government-demolished ...

CAIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In a compound in southeastern Cairo, Elham Fouad walks through a clean, organised street full of colourful buildings with her husband and young daughter. The scene ...

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CAIRO (Reuters) - A massive eight-metre statue discovered in the ground water of a Cairo slum this month is likely not a depiction of the revered Pharaoh Ramses II as first believed, Antiquities ...