In one of the city's poorest areas, residents who recycle trash by hand and a handful of environmental activists are slowly improving their... In Cairo Slum, the Poor Spark Environmental Change In ...

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The people have grown cynical over the years and no longer get their hopes up when government officials and journalists come around to ask about... In Cairo Slum, Little Hope For Change "Is your story ...

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 — While the ancient Egyptian empire fell a millennia ago, discoveries from the time period are still being uncovered. A team of archeologists from Egypt and Germany have found a colossal statue ...

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 ...

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 (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 ...

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 ...