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In Cairo’s busy streets, towering palms, purple-blossomed jacarandas and mature sycamore trees provide precious respite from the midday sun and a glimpse of green in the tangle of concrete and cars.
Protests by Cairo residents and environmentalists over tree-felling come as Egypt’s government prepares to host the COP27 climate summit in November
But as Egypt's government powers ahead with ambitious urban development plans https://news.trust.org/item/20220120054544-mldfm, including road and rail links for a new administrative capital, thousands of Cairo's trees have been cut down, angering residents and green activists. "Cairo is already suffocating," said Rim Hamdy, a botany professor at Cairo University in the nearby city of Giza who has been petitioning authorities to save a centuries-old sycamore tree near the university.
CAIRO (AP) — A few months ago, Choucri Asmar decided he wasn't ready to give up hope....
CAIRO (AP) — A few months ago, Choucri Asmar decided he wasn't ready to give up hope....