Mahrous Mahmoud, a professional soccer player in Egypt, is working as a street vendor to make ends meet amid the pandemic.
In this May 9, 2020 photo, 28-year-old defender Mahrous Mahmoud holds up his Egyptian national football team jersey he trains with, inside his home, in Manfalut, a town 350 kilometers south of Cairo in the province of Assiut, Egypt. MANFALUT, EGYPT -- On a hot Saturday afternoon, Mahrous Mahmoud is busy as can be. The professional soccer player, however, is working up a sweat in a different way these days -- as a street vendor.
That's not an option for Mahmoud, or many others in the Nile River region of Assuit. His family has to eat.The market in Manfalut, a town 350 kilometres south of Cairo, has remained open throughout the pandemic, bustling as shoppers buy provisions for the evening meal that breaks the daily fast during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. The small pancakes that Mahmoud makes, called qatayef in Arabic, are among the most favourite Ramadan desserts.
Like many other places in the world, the repercussions of the pandemic were disastrous for most of Egypt's 100 million people, particularly in the south. Even before the virus crisis, poverty has swelled because of austerity measures taken by President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi's government, part of reforms to overhaul the country's battered economy.
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