Increasing numbers of Egyptians are desperately hunting for second jobs, cutting back on eating meat and scrambling to find new ways to cope with soaring prices, amid a worsening cost-of-living crisis.
Ahmed Fawzi is searching for a second job even though his current role as a graphic designer in Cairo leaves him with few spare hours in the day. He said: “It feels like the economic crisis is literally squeezing me. Prices are going up every day and there’s no solution to it.”
