DEUTSCHE WELLE – In the Nile Delta town of New Nubaria, about 80 kilometers from the Mediterranean, donkeys, cattle and goats seek shelter in the shade of date palms. Around them, black irrigation tubes stick out of the hot sand. It was here that, in the 1980s, the government turned 250,000 hectares of desert into arable land for 200,000 poor farmers, selling them the land for cheap. Today, though, many of these farmers have lost hope. Read More
