Egyptians exiled in Sudan say the current standoff in Khartoum reminds them of their own broken dreams
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/ 11 February 2009
An Islamist opposition activist was sentenced to two years in jail on Wednesday by a military court for crossing illegally into the Gaza Strip.
It looks like a mirage but the lush fields of cauliflower, apricot trees and melon growing among a vast stretch of sand north of Cairo’s pyramids is all too real — proof of Egypt’s determination to turn its deserts green. While climate change and land overuse help many deserts across the world advance, Egypt is slowly greening the sand that covers almost all of its territory.