Bloomberg News report on the pig cull, the current situation in Cairo, and the displacement of the Zabbaleen (which they, too, spelled Zabaleen). Daniel Williams writes:

Egypt’s pigs are getting their revenge.

Five months after anxiety about swine flu prompted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s government to order the slaughter of all the country’s 300,000 hogs, the organic waste they once devoured is piling up on Cairo’s streets, contributing to a garbage crisis.

The government’s action destroyed the livelihood of about 70,000 families known as zabaleen, who were freelance trash collectors and urban pig farmers.

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Thanks, Daniel, for the solid piece of independent journalism.