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67 families in Giza evicted for new housing development project
Sixty-seven families in the Warraq and Imbaba Airport area in North Giza have been evicted from their homes after the land was sold to investors to establish new housing projects. The Ministry of Housing, Utilities, and Urban Development had initially reportedly promised to evict the families only when the alternative housing units were ready. The... »
Cairo: New urban plan will turn the City of the Dead (Arafa) into a large public park
The Egyptian government is studying plans to move the historic Cairo cemetery of Arafa to a location outside the Egyptian capital. The proposed plan would turn 6,000 hectares of cemetery known as the City of the Dead, which is used as informal housing by tens of thousands of people, into a large public park. International urban... »
