In Cairo, heat and long days test Ramadan faithful


Cairo (AFP) - Pushing his cart through the teeming Egyptian capital, 71-year-old Cairo street sweeper Abdallah Mohamed says nothing can stop him from fasting during Ramadan.

Not the stifling heat pushing temperatures above 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit). Not even the long days of this year's Muslim fasting month, which is coinciding with the summer solstice.

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