Items related to informal settlements

Bulaq el-Gedid Street offers an eclectic mix of people and architecture. The semi-crumbling Bulaq three-storey buildings face the flamboyant Ministry of Foreign Affairs, while the minaret of an old mosque infuses the air with calls to prayer.
Ramlet Bulaq residents briefly block Corniche
Al-Masry Al-Youm 13 Mar 2013
Ramlet Bulaq residents blocked the Corniche in Cairo next to the Maspero building Tuesday evening, protesting ongoing...
Ramlet Bulaq slum dwellers 'break out'
Abulkasim al-Jaberi 02 Oct 2012
It was already past noon on Sunday, and Magdy, the general coordinator of the popular committee, is still running...
Another art exhibition on informal settlements hopes for change
Laura Cugusi 14 Jul 2012
The southwest tremors of the Kalkan earthquake felt in Cairo on Monday were feeble compared to those of 1992. But fear...
Central Cairo's Boulaq slums lie in the shadow of a luxurious real estate development.
Cairo's central slum under threat
Tom Dale
Abulkasim al-Jaberi
05 Jul 2012
The contrast is stark. On the Nile waterfront, gleaming skyscrapers shoot into the sky, containing a mall stuffed with...
Moqattam
Police arrest demonstrators demanding housing
Al-Masry Al-Youm 23 Apr 2012
Security services in Cairo arrested 24 demonstrators from an informal settlement in Duwaiqa for storming the Cairo...
Egyptian actor demands housing rights in new constitution
Al-Masry Al-Youm 28 Feb 2012
Actor Mohamed Sobhi, a member of the National Council for Human Rights, warned on Tuesday against the risks of informal...
Impact of the destruction left by the collapse rocks in Duweiqa on September 6, 2008, where huge stone blocks collapsed on dozens of houses Bazbp Bakhit in the Jura region Manshit-Nasser rockslide east of Cairo, which led to the occurrence of a large number of dead and wounded by this painful incident.
Govt disregards rights of informal settlement dwellers, report says
Sarah Carr 24 Aug 2011
The Egyptian government must do more to protect the rights of people living in informal settlements, human rights group...
Demonstration of Duweiqa residents in front of ministers council in Kasr el-Aini street in Cairo on 28 December 2009 protesting on lack of compensation after destroying their homes
Informal settlement dwellers evicted, despite housing promises
Sarah Carr 31 Jul 2011
Two weeks after being forcibly evicted from public housing, a group of families of the Duweiqa neighborhood are still...
A tent hosting several displaced people from Salam area in front of Maspiro.
Evicted families take their fight to Maspero building
Ahmed Zaki Osman 12 Jun 2011
As the sit-in protest in front of the state television and radio building at Maspero enters its eighth day, Khalid...
Residents of Manshiet Nasser
14 Apr 2010
Residents of Nour Street, Manshiet Nasser, watching neighborhood's homes pulled down, April, 14, 2010. Earlier, General Mustafa Eebada, head of neighborhood council, had issued orders to remove homes in area based on a geological report warning of a massive landslide and imminent risks for residents.