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‘It’s killing the fish’: Egyptian fishermen bear brunt of Nile pollution

‘Fishing is our source of income, we can’t work anywhere else.’

Ibrahim Abdel Azeem is an Egyptian fisherman who says his livelihood has been affected by the pollution and industrial waste contaminating the Nile River.
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