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 (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 ...

CAIRO — Eighteen months behind in rent and unable to pay utility bills, Amr is waiting for the day he is evicted from his apartment — again. Until four years ago, Amr, 71, was able to make a meager ...

The euphoria of the revolutionary moment is wondrous — drawing out from despondency and delivering from despair, young and old, city dweller and peasant, all uniting in a collective that suddenly ...

ISDF Manager Khaled Seddik says LE14 billion has been spent in the last two years to develop slum areas; 1,100 areas designated as slums in Egypt, and more than 300 in Greater Cairo. Thirteen ...

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CAIRO (AP) — 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 ...

CAIRO, Feb 4 (Reuters) - While Egyptian police officers and men in plain clothes holding knives and sticks surrounded and searched our car, a 12-year-old boy with dirty hair and ragged clothes opened ...

This article originally appeared on VICE News. A team of Egyptian and German archaeologists uncovered a 26-foot statue on Thursday that may be of Pharaoh Ramses II, one of Egypt’s most famous rulers.