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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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, Jan 12 (Reuters) - When an uprising ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011, Egyptians in the impoverished Cairo neighbourhood of Imbaba rejoiced. The revolt raised hopes that a democratic ...