Sisi urges families to have 2 children to save the state $1 trillion

[المستشار الصحفى]

الصحف المصرية والعربية

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has warned the population not to have more than two children to keep costs on the state down. On 1 January the Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics announced that Egypt's population had hit 101.38 million and that it had increased by 1.38 million over the period of ten months. There are roughly 20 million people in the Cairo and Giza governorates. "Living conditions are getting worse and we need a trillion dollars to match the population increase," the Egyptian strongman announced at a medical conference in Ismailia earlier this week. He added that living conditions would not improve until the population growth is under control. Around one third of Egyptians live below the […]

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