On the occasion of 10 years since the start of the protests in Egypt, which led to the fall of Hosni Mubarak in 2011, France 24 publishes a series of reports to take stock of the aspirations of the demonstrators.
In the streets, they sang "Bread, Freedom and Social Justice".
But over the past decade, the economy has collapsed and the new military regime that returned to power in 2013 has had to cut numerous subsidies.
In the popular districts of Cairo everyone is doing as best they can.
Mina, a young father, is struggling to make ends meet.
“Before, I managed to save, but today life is getting harder and harder. I just have enough to support myself,” he explains.
Like many inhabitants of this working-class neighborhood, Mina devotes herself to breeding pigeons alongside her work as a ragpicker.
With the certainty of being able to count on its birds in the event of a hard blow.
"Breeding pigeons is quite easy, even with less than a penny, I can feed them. I buy them when they are small, then I make them fat and then I sell them."
The growing impoverishment of the middle class is worrying in Egypt, as nearly a third of the country's inhabitants already live below the poverty line.
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