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As hundreds of tourists gathered at Aswan’s Abu Simbel Temple in Upper Egypt Monday to watch a unique solar event, a group of Nubians staged a protest opposing a parliamentary decree they claim deprives them of the right to return to their ancestral lands on the Nile banks, according to state-owned Al-Ahram. The decision, referred to as decree 444, was originally issued by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in 2014 and approved by the newly elected parliament last month. The decree…