Egypt march

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For more than a week, Egyptians have been coming back out to the streets, protesting against President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. The man said to have sparked the protests is a self-exiled man named Mohamed Ali. There’s another mass protest set to take place on Friday. Host Marco Werman speaks with BBC Monitoring’s Joana Saba, who is in Cairo.

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