shantytowns
‘I am so afraid’: India’s poor face world’s largest lockdown
Features/Interviews
April 17, 2020
‘I am so afraid’: India’s poor face world’s largest lockdown
The street peddler watched the prime minister’s speech on a battered TV, with her family of five crowded around her…
Expert to help Egypt develop shantytowns
Egypt
January 16, 2015
Expert to help Egypt develop shantytowns
Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb met with Hernando de Soto, an economist specialized in development and informal economies.
Tuesday’s papers: English exam shock, apartments for shantytown residents, electricity workers’ sit-in suspended
Egypt
June 14, 2011
Tuesday’s papers: English exam shock, apartments for shantytown residents, electricity workers’ sit-in suspended
The arrest of the alleged Israeli spy continues to dominate the headlines of Tuesday’s state-owned and independent newspapers. Al-Ahram starts…
LE150 million to develop shantytowns
Business
June 13, 2011
LE150 million to develop shantytowns
Prime Minister Essam Sharaf has endorsed LE150 million to develop 383 shantytowns in 27 different governorates. “We are classifying the…
Egypt set to develop slums areas throughout the country
Egypt
December 15, 2010
Egypt set to develop slums areas throughout the country
The Egyptian government on Wednesday will examine plans to develop spontaneously constructed residential districts throughout the country.These squalid areas house…
Syndicate blasts ban on shantytown pharmacies
Egypt
January 18, 2010
Syndicate blasts ban on shantytown pharmacies
The Egyptian Pharmacists Syndicate will hold a general assembly on 12 February in order to discuss a recent Health Ministry…