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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 (Reuters) - Bayada Mohamed has left her old slum on a crumbling cliffside and moved into a new flat in a Cairo residential complex, making her among the first to benefit from a government plan ...

CAIRO — Archaeologists in Egypt discovered a massive statue in a Cairo slum that may be of Ramses II, one of the country’s most famous and longest ruling ancient pharaohs. The colossus, a large ...

Beloved in her homeland of France and among the poor she helped in one of Cairo’s worst slums, Sister Emmanuelle died today at the age of 99. French President Nicolas Sarkozy said the French nun, who ...

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 ...

Hundreds of Christians demonstrated late Wednesday near a large Cairo slum, blocking a major highway and clashing with police following the shooting death of a Christian man the day before, said a ...

CAIRO, Aug 14 (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.