A new capital city for Egypt - that's the ambitous plan designed to solve congestion in Ciaro - one of the world's most overcrowded cities. But can those involved fund a project which is expected ...

Satellite images show construction of Egypt's New Administrative Capital has accelerated after a period of slower progress. President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi launched the project in 2015 and it is ...

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 ...

Construction of the "New Administrative Capital" has "well overshot" its original first-phase completion date of 2019-2020, said The Times. But work on the project continues, as does the chorus of ...

Egypt is busy building a new – as yet unnamed – capital, designed to be the country's new administrative hub and home to more than 6.5 million residents.

The new administrative capital is one of several mega-projects launched by El-Sisi since he became president in 2014, part of a broader effort to reboot the economy after the uprising a decade ago ...

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’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 ...

How far and how fast Egypt's centre of gravity shifts away from Cairo to the new capital 45 km from the Nile is unclear. For now, thousands of residential blocks stand empty either side of a ...

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 ...