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Egypt's stateless keep receiving empty promises of citizenship

Egypt has recently granted citizenship to three brothers from the Sinai Peninsula, renewing calls by other stateless individuals, mainly tribesmen, to receive the citizenship as they are deprived of their most basic rights.

Umm Yasser, an Egyptian Bedouin woman guide from the Hamada tribe, prepares tea for a group of hikers in Wadi el-Sahu in South Sinai governorate on March 29, 2019, during the first "Sinai Trail" led by Bedouin women guides. - In Wadi Sahu, a village in the southern part of Egypt's eastern Sinai peninsula, made up of humble shacks with corrugated iron and recycled scraps, Bedouins are banking on the return of tourism after the tumultuous years since Egypt's 2011 uprising. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)
Umm Yasser, an Egyptian Bedouin female guide from the Hamada tribe, prepares tea for a group of hikers in Wadi el-Sahu, during the first "Sinai Trail" led by Bedouin female guides, in south Sinai governorate, Egypt, March 29, 2019. — Khaled Desouki/AFP via Getty Images)

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