Snapshots of the fortnight (September 2 to 16)

Five-year-old Karkar tries to drink water from a faucet near his home in the Eshash el-Sudan slum in the Dokki neighbourhood of Giza, south of Cairo, Egypt, on September 2. Residents of the slum clashed with the police in late August, when about 50 ramshackle huts were destroyed and at least 20 people were injured. The slum dwellers, some of whom have called Eshash el-Sudan home for 50 years, say there are not enough apartments built nearby to house them