Egypt’s president is building a new capital city to replace Cairo. It eventually will be the size of Singapore and home to 6.5 million people.

Cairo, the capital city of Egypt, is an ancient place. But it has some very modern problems, like traffic and pollution, and its population could double in the next 40 years.

Fuelled by record-breaking investments, ambitious national strategies, and a population craving modern urban living, Cairo's ...

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 President Abdel ...

How much Egypt's centre of gravity shifts from Cairo to the new capital, 45 km from the Nile, is unclear. For many ordinary Egyptians, for whom the bustling city has been home for generations, the ...

The new city is being built on 170,000 acres about 28 miles east of Cairo and nearly twice its size. Construction began in 2016, and the first of its forecast 6.5 million residents are scheduled ...

The teeming, maddening, and indescribably charming city of Cairo has served as Egypt's capital for 1,000 years. On Friday, the Egyptian government announced that the country will build a new ...

In less than a decade, a new Egyptian capital may rise out of the desert. Last week, Egypt’s housing minister Mostafa Madbouly announced plans for a yet-unnamed development just east of Cairo ...

Over the weekend, Egypt unveiled plans to build a wholly new capital. The new city would lie somewhere to Cairo's east, closer to the Red Sea. It would sprawl across some 150 square miles and ...

Yet to be named, the city will stretch over 150 square-mile patch of ground east of Cairo and be home to 7 million, hopefully many from Cairo itself, thereby reducing population stress.

Egypt is preparing to officially switch capital cities from Cairo to a totally new settlement just 30 miles away, in one of the most ambitious engineering and construction projects ever undertaken ...