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Egypt Replaces Cairo With A New High-Tech Capital

Egypt Replaces Cairo With A New High-Tech Capital

 

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On a flat stretch of desert between the Nile River and the Suez Canal, a new city is being built that will one day replace ancient Cairo as Egypt’s capital.

The new metropolis is currently a giant construction zone, but work is progressing at breakneck speed. It is slated to be larger than Singapore and will eventually be home to 6.5 million people.

The government is set to move 34 government ministries — including the presidential complex — to the new capital in next June, just four years after the project was announced by President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi.

Story from NBC News.  Story by Rachel Elbaum.

Officials describe the new administrative capital, which has not yet been named, with a string of superlatives.

It will be the country’s most high-tech city, home to Africa’s tallest tower, and Egypt’s largest minaret and tallest church steeple.

Former Brig. Gen. Khaled el-Husseiny Soliman, the international coordination manager with the Administrative Capital for Urban Development, which is overseeing a partnership between the housing ministry and the military, said the project would create “the first smart city in Egypt.”

Read more at NBC News.