Workers gather as they wait for customers outside a secondhand car parts shop in the industrial area of the capital Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, Oct. 7, 2022. In a gritty neighborhood of Nairobi known for fixing cars and selling auto parts, businesses are struggling and customers are unhappy. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
The cost of living in Cairo has soared so much that security guard Mustafa Gamal had to send his wife and year-old daughter to live with his parents in a village 70 miles south of the Egyptian capital to save money.