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From Our Own Correspondent: Disenchanted Egypt

Orla Guerin senses a change in Egypt's mood - and its attitude to President Sisi - as the economy and human rights worsen and political humour grows ever more pointed

Egypt's President Sisi still has some passionate supporters - but are the masses drifting away from him? Amid a worsening economy and growing claims of human-rights abuses, political humour is getting rather pointed these days. The Â鶹Éç's Orla Guerin reports from Cairo on the word on the street.

Photo: Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi speaking to the press in Athens on December 8, 2015. (LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP/Getty Images)

6 minutes

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Thu 3 Mar 2016 15:23GMT

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  • Thu 3 Mar 2016 15:23GMT