Egypt’s government wants to start running the nation from a new capital in the desert from mid-2020, but the $58 billion project is struggling to raise funds and needs to overcome other ...

Egypt is notorious for developing new cities in its deserts, promising to alleviate the overcrowded capital. New Cairo, a satellite city established in 2000 was built to house as many as five ...

Egypt's giant New Administrative Capital recently became the country's official seat of government, but its development has gone largely under the radar. Here is everything you need to know about ...

Egypt is preparing to spend billions doubling the size of a lavish new capital it is building in the desert 45 km (28 miles) east of Cairo, where the first residents are trickling in, the head of ...

Talks between Egypt and Chinese builder CFLD for a $20 billion development in the new administrative capital have fallen through over disagreements on how to share revenue from the project ...

The Speaker of the Arab Parliament Adel bin Abdulrahman al-Asoomi and the Secretary-General of the Arab League, Ahmed Aboul-Gheit, handed over the best Arab project for sustainable development 2021 ...

It’s not the first time Emaar and Egypt have struggled to reach a deal over the new capital, which was launched with tremendous fanfare in 2015. China’s $20 Billion New Egypt Capital Project ...

But the immense cost of the project—$45 billion is slightly more than a sixth of Egypt's GDP —has some Cairenes wondering why the government doesn't invest in the capital that they already have.

To put that in perspective, the CIA handbook says Egypt's total gross domestic product in 2013 was $262 billion. This map shows the possible location of Egypt's new capital. Google Maps PAST FAILURES ...

The new capital will be developed on a land area of around 700 square kilometers (270 square miles)—roughly 12 times the size of Manhattan—located between Cairo and the Red Sea. Officials hope ...

“Egypt's administrative capital is not different from Ankara, New Delhi or Brasilia,” said Zeyad Elkelani, a political science professor at Cairo University.

Egypt’s government wants to start running the nation from a new capital in the desert from mid-2020, but the $58 billion project is struggling to raise funds and needs to overcome other ...