CAIRO (Reuters) – In Egypt’s new capital on the outskirts of Cairo, residents will use smart cards and apps to unlock doors and make payments, and surf the web on public WiFi beamed from lampposts. A ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Chinese worker in the new city. A controversial new Egyptian capital city is being built 30 miles east of Cairo at the expense ...

Cairo, the capital of Egypt, is a bustling metropolis that sits on the banks of the River Nile. Home to an estimated 22 million people, the city has more recently expanded into a sprawling jumble of ...

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s president on Wednesday ordered his administration to start moving its offices next month to a sprawling new administrative capital in the desert outside Cairo, a spokesman said.

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt is racing to prepare a grandiose new capital city in the desert east of Cairo before the first civil servants move in this summer and ahead of the delayed official opening of ...

Since 2015, Egypt's government has been working to create a new, modern Egypt. They are building a $59 billion city in the desert and have already built 4,350 miles of new roads and 900 tunnels and ...

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CAIRO, Jan 4 (Reuters) - 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 ...

It is the grandest in a slew of megaprojects spearheaded by the president. But as the country limps through a dire economic crisis, there are doubts about whether it can afford his grandiose dreams.

In Egypt's new capital on the outskirts of Cairo, residents will use smart cards and apps to unlock doors and make payments, and surf the web on public WiFi beamed from lampposts. By Mahmoud Mourad ...