Cairo's street vendors have benefited from the turmoil of post-revolutionary Egypt, and the city's governor has proven more willing to take into account their needs, but their demands still fall on deaf ears at the national level. Does Vandousselaere reports.
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Cairo's street vendors have benefited from the turmoil of post-revolutionary Egypt, but their demands still fall on deaf ears at the national level.
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Cairo governorate spokesman Khaled Mostafa acknowledges that the government is changing tactics: "instead of chasing them, the governorate has a new policy--trying to organise them. The old method of chasing them and confiscating their goods had catastrophic consequences..."
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