FILE - Asmarat alternative-housing project

Egypt aims to deliver vocational training to 6.4K irregular workers who used to dwell slums

Thu, 18 Jan 2024 - 08:19 GMT

The Ministry of Social Solidarity held Thursday an employment fair for irregular workers residing alternative-housing neighborhoods and who received vocational training.

FILE - Asmarat alternative-housing neighborhood

Egyptian government furnishes 192 alternative-housing units for Warraq dwellers

Tue, 14 Mar 2023 - 12:36 GMT

The Ministry of Social Solidarity announced Monday the completion of the furnishing of 192 alternative-housing units allocated to citizens who used to dwell slums on Giza's Warraq Island.

FILE - Asmarat alternative-housing neighborhood

Egypt to implement rehabilitation strategy targeted at former slum dwellers

Mon, 26 Dec 2022 - 02:16 GMT

The number of slums nationwide has been 351

Sisi at Egypt's Economic Conference 2022

Sisi focuses on electricity, eliminating slums, education at Egypt's Economic Conference 2022

Sun, 23 Oct 2022 - 06:34 GMT

In the following lines, Egypt Today (ET) reviews Sisi’s most prominent statements at the economic conference during its first activities.

Cairo Citadel Aqueduct, Slums, Housing, Cairo,

296 more families moved from Cairo Citadel Aqueduct slums to alternative-housing units

Sun, 28 Aug 2022 - 11:19 GMT

296 more families moved from Cairo Citadel Aqueduct slums to alternative-housing units

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Egypt’s Ahmed Fawzi Saleh participates in Cannes Film Festival with his film project ‘Hamlet From The Slums’

Fri, 27 May 2022 - 11:53 GMT

Egypt’s Ahmed Fawzi Saleh participates in Cannes Film Festival with his film project ‘Hamlet From The Slums’

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Updates on slums removal from Old Cairo revealed

Sun, 13 Mar 2022 - 02:28 GMT

The Cairo governorate municipal authority is currently working in the slums of El Sokar wa Al Laymoun, Hosh Al Ghagar, and Al Gayara located near Cairo Citadel Aqueduct.

Cairo Citadel Aqueduct – Wikimedia Commons

25 families cleared from 3 slums near Cairo Citadel Aqueduct

Mon, 07 Mar 2022 - 02:22 GMT

Earlier, an entire slum area in the same location was removed.

FILE – Alternative housing flat-buildings at Giza's October Gradens neighborhood

Over 1K slum-dwelling families in Giza moved to alternative housing units

Sun, 13 Feb 2022 - 02:05 GMT

Those used to dwell two slums.

FILE - Maan alternative housing project located in Al Salam City eastern Cairo

3.4K families dwelling slums moved to alternative housing project eastern Cairo

Mon, 22 Nov 2021 - 12:03 GMT

The original residences of those families, which were 1,213 flat-buildings, have been demolished.

President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi met with a group of Egyptian businessmen participating in “Haya Karima" (Decent Life) Initiative

Haya Karima allocates LE 32B to re-plan slums

Tue, 31 Aug 2021 - 12:14 GMT

Haya Karima has helped noticeably in reducing poverty levels in the villages where it has intervened.

A slum in Cairo - Wikimedia Commons

Basic info about how Cairo will be free of slums by the end of 2021

Sun, 15 Aug 2021 - 12:54 GMT

There will be no slums or hazardous areas in Cairo by the end of 2021, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said Saturday.

Development works in Magra el-Oyoun Fence - FILE

Egypt’s developmental plans turn 6 Cairo slums into attractions

Sat, 03 Jul 2021 - 02:18 GMT

As the state removed slums and unsafe areas, replacing it with appropriate alternatives for residents, features of Cairo governorate have dramatically changed.

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Eliminating of Egypt's slums costs LE40B

Sun, 27 Jun 2021 - 03:50 GMT

Siddik said that 357 areas and 1105 random markets have been identified at the level of the Republic, and the construction of the last 45,000 housing units will be completed within two months.

Egypt experience to end unsafe slums became a role model: Executive Director of Slums Development Fund

Mon, 07 Jun 2021 - 12:44 GMT

Egypt experience to end unsafe slums became a role model to other countries according to Khaled Siddiq, Executive Director of the Slums Development Fund.

“Reviviscence”: documentary features Egypt’s long journey to end slums

Sat, 13 Feb 2021 - 01:06 GMT

Shedding light on Egypt's long journey to end unsafe slums crises, DMC channel produced a 29-minute documentary that reviews how housing projects such as Asmarat and Bashar El khier were a live saving step for more than 150K citizens and families.

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Egypt’s ‘Hamlet from the Slums’ producer Ahmed Amer to partcipate in the 2021 Rotterdam Lab

Mon, 18 Jan 2021 - 09:47 GMT

Egypt’s ‘Hamlet from the Slums’ producer Ahmed Amer to partcipate in the 2021 Rotterdam Lab.

Egypt's PM inspects social housing projects for residents of unsafe slums

Egypt's PM inspects social housing projects for residents of unsafe slums

Sat, 09 Jan 2021 - 12:56 GMT

The 230-feddan project, cost EGP 1.7 billion, is planned to have 134 buildings, including 4800 flats, 475 administrative units, and 292 commercial ones.

FILE - Egyptian PM Mostafa Madbouli

PM directs speeding up process of furnishing units of social housing projects

Fri, 18 Dec 2020 - 10:56 GMT

Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouli directed on Thursday speeding up the process of furnishing the residential units of the housing projects of developing unsafe slums in Cairo.

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Egypt replaces Red Sea's slums with 1800 housing units

Sun, 18 Oct 2020 - 02:58 GMT

The five residential areas include Zarzara, Safaga, Quseir, Mujahid, and Jabal Al-Afash, in addition to markets, such as the Peugeot parking market.

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