EGYPT is home to 1,100 slum areas, 350 of which are in and around Cairo. In addition to their lack of basic facilities such as electricity, running water, and sewage, many of those slums are ...

But in the city's sprawling slums, away from the international media's gaze, Egypt's massive police apparatus is still firmly in control.

President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi held a meeting on Thursday 21/08/2014 with Cairo Governor Galal el-Saeed, during which they discussed ways of overcoming problems facing the governorate.

Many of those left homeless by last week’s rock slide demonstrated in front of Cairo’s City Hall this week to push the government, which they say has reacted slowly to a tragedy that killed as ...

Egypt's Army Chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi attends a meeting with Egypt's interim President Adly Mansour, Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (not ...

From the roof of the house in which he lives, Mohammed Hassan can see some of central Cairo's most prized real estate. A five-star hotel sits in the distance to the right, the towering foreign ...

A boy runs along cliffs in the Manshiet Nasser slums on the outskirts of Cairo 2011 The Christian Science Monitor ...

CAIRO (AP) - Archeologists in Egypt discovered a massive statue in a Cairo slum that may be of pharaoh Ramses II, one of the country's most famous ancient rulers.

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.