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Authorities shut down popular Cairo markets to prevent overcrowding
Egypt

Authorities shut down popular Cairo markets to prevent overcrowding

Cairo police and local authorities launched a crackdown on street vendors at the Ataba and al-Mosky markets, following orders from…
21 defendants sentenced to 15 years in prison on intimidation charges
Egypt

21 defendants sentenced to 15 years in prison on intimidation charges

The Supreme State Security Emergency Court held in Abdeen sentenced 21 defendants to 15 years in prison and assigned them…
Times are a-changin’ in London where contactless is king
Business

Times are a-changin’ in London where contactless is king

  For centuries, London has sustained a street-level economy where performers and vendors make a living from the spare change…
Video shows child street vendor beaten by policeman on metro
Egypt

Video shows child street vendor beaten by policeman on metro

On Monday, Facebook users circulated a video of a child being beaten by a policeman, in an attempt to take…
Electric cars and a LE 400 million project to transform site of Giza Pyramids
Egypt

Electric cars and a LE 400 million project to transform site of Giza Pyramids

A LE 400 million development project will accompany the introduction of electric cars as part of a move to significantly…
Egypt gives Italy phone records of street vendors’ union chief: legal source
Egypt

Egypt gives Italy phone records of street vendors’ union chief: legal source

Egypt has handed over the mobile phone records of the head of a street vendors union to Italian investigators who…
Street vendors in Alexandria, Matrouh get solar-powered carts
Egypt

Street vendors in Alexandria, Matrouh get solar-powered carts

The Alexandria governorate has contracted a local supplier for the purchase of 13 solar-powered carts to be used by street…
Cairo Governor: A member of the “Downtown Mafia” helped remove the street vendors
Egypt

Cairo Governor: A member of the “Downtown Mafia” helped remove the street vendors

Cairo Governor Galal al-Saeed said a member of the “Downtown Mafia” helped him evacuate the street vendors from the city…
‘I have no money:’ tourist t-shirts printed with messages drive vendors away
Egypt

‘I have no money:’ tourist t-shirts printed with messages drive vendors away

"No money," "I have no money, leave me alone," and other similar phrases were printed in Arabic on the t-shirts…
Police chase street vendors returning to Downtown
Egypt

Police chase street vendors returning to Downtown

Police chased street vendors in Downtown Cairo on Monday who challenged a government decision to move them to the Gateway…
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