Egypt presses on with new capital in the desert amid virus outbreak

Reuters ^ | May 13, 2020 | by Aidan Lewis; byline with Mahmoud Mourad; edited by Ulf Laessing and Giles Elgood

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The level of activity at the desert site - where trucks rumble down newly built roads and cranes swing over unfinished apartment blocks - reflects the new city's political importance... Known as the New Administrative Capital, it is the biggest of a series of mega-projects championed by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as a source of growth and jobs. Soon after coronavirus began to spread, Sisi postponed moving the first civil servants to the new city and moved back the opening of a national museum adjoining the pyramids to next year. Productivity dipped as companies adapted to health guidelines and some labourers stayed home... after 10 days of slowdown construction had fully resumed at the new capital with a shift system, said Amr Khattab, spokesman for the Housing Ministry, which along with the military owns the company building the city...

Sisi, who publicly quizzes officials responsible for infrastructure projects about timetables and costs, launched the new capital in 2015.

Designed as a high-tech smart city that will house 6.5 million people and relieve congestion in Cairo, it includes government and business districts, a giant park, and a diplomatic quarter as yet unbuilt... The Housing Ministry expects to deliver two residential districts by late 2021, while the business district should be finished by early 2022, said Ahmed al-Araby, deputy head of the new capital's development authority. Private developers and the army are building six other neighbourhoods.

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Egypt is building a brand new Mediterranean paradise called New Alamein. Egypt's population is exploding. To help absorb this growth, it is constructing New Alamein: a city that will host 3 million people and cost over $60 billion. With its WW2 history and gold sand beaches, Egypt hopes the city will serve as a tourist hotspot, propelling the country into a bright future.

Egypt's New Alamein City | Futurology

Egypt is constructing Galala City, a new mountaintop paradise, 80 miles southeast of Cairo, along the Red Sea. Galala City will help absorb Egypt's exploding population while also serving as a tourist destination. It will have incredible views of the Red Sea, include an Olympic village, many world class resorts, residential areas and many more projects!

Egypt's New Galala City | Futurology

Egypt is constructing New Mansoura city, a $3.5 billion, brand new megaproject along the Mediterranean Sea. The project will provide a new home for the growing populations of Mansoura and other northern delta cities. Eventually, it will have the capacity for 1.5 million people. New Mansoura is progressing quickly. However, whether it will ever fulfill the vision of its creators, we will have to wait and see.

Egypt's New Mansoura City | Futurology

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three more vids from Futurology (YT channel) about construction of new cities by the Egyptian gubmint.

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