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The air pollution in Cairo is a matter of serious concern. The air pollution in downtown Cairo is more than 10 to 100 times of acceptable world standards. [8] Cairo has a poor factor because of lack of rain and its layout of tall buildings and narrow streets, which create a bowl effect (bad ventilation and consequent trapping of pollutants).
Egypt is considered a downstream country because the source of the Nile, and most of the water that contributes to it, comes from outside Egypt’s borders. [24] The Nile flows 4,100 miles beginning in Lake Victoria (located between Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya) and emptying into the Mediterranean sea forming the Nile Delta.
The Egyptian protesters' grievances focused on legal and political issues, [24] including police brutality, state-of-emergency laws, [1] lack of political freedom, civil liberty, freedom of speech, corruption, [2] high unemployment, food-price inflation [3] and low wages. [1] [3] The protesters' primary demands were the end of the Mubarak regime.
According to monitoring site DownDetector, user-reported YouTube problems began spiking at around 7 p.m. ET. The issues appeared most acute in the Northeast U.S., the U.K. and Western Europe, as ...
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On 11 July, Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi declared he would seek dialogue with political forces and judicial authorities to resolve the row over the dissolved parliament. He also said that he would respect Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court ruling that blocked his decision to call the nation's parliament back into session. [73] [77] [78]
The 2016-2017 Egyptian protests was a mass protest movement and political unrest movement against president Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and his reforms, government and many other core issues. The first and major issue was massive corruption and the selling of Tiran and Sanafir to Saudi Arabia. Thousands chanted slogans depicting the government and ...
The 2013 Egyptian coup d'etat or The Counter-revolution [10] [11] is an event that took place on 3 July 2013. Egyptian army chief General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi led a coalition to remove the democratically elected President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi from power and suspended the Egyptian constitution of 2012. [12]