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B. Cairo is the capital and largest city in Egypt. With more than 20 million people, Cairo’s metropolitan area is the most populous in the Middle East. Since gaining power in a 2013 military takeover, el-Sissi has silenced free speech and thousands of critics with harsh punishments and long prison sentences.
A. War-ravaged Afghanistan received $5.7 billion in economic and military assistance from the United States. It was followed in order by Iraq, Israel, Jordan and Egypt, which received nearly $1.5 billion in U.S. aid. Most of that - $1.3 billion – was aid to Egypt’s military.
C. With more than 200 million people, Nigeria is the most populous nation in Africa. It is followed by Ethiopia with about 108 million and then Egypt. While poverty is widespread in Egypt, the nation is better off than much of Africa which has many of the poorest countries in the world.
D. In December 2010, a 26-year-old Tunisian vegetable seller set himself on fire after being harassed by police. That set off a an intensive 28-day campaign of civil resistance that drove out the nation’s autocratic president after 23 years in power. Demonstrations spread across the Arab world including Bahrain, Jordan and Syria which are all in southwest Asia.