EGYPT’S NEW CAPITAL CITY CAIRO - Egypt's president, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi,
has called for the abolition of the death penalty. President of Egypt, Abdel Fattah
al-Sisi, has called for the abolition of the death penalty in his country. President Abdel
Fattah al-ambitious Sisi's new capital city in the desert east of Cairo is racing against
the clock to be completed in time for the arrival of the first civil servants this summer
and the postponed official opening of President Abdel Fattah al Sisi’s-project.
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Construction workers are putting the finishing touches on an avenue of ministries that will
be modeled after the architecture of Egyptian pharaonic temples and will border an elevated
Islamic complex. An avenue of ministries runs through the heart of the city, where workers
are hard at work on a series of institutions that are designed to look like Egyptian pharaonic
temples and are flanked by a raised Islamic complex and two domed parliament buildings.
When finished, the 385-meter skyscraper in the commercial district will be connected
to the rest of the city by a monorail system. On the other side of the park, the contours
of a 10-kilometer-long public space that will eventually lead to a massive mosque are beginning
to emerge. In order to operate autonomously, the city,
which will be referred to as the New Administrative Capital, will be built on virgin land away
from Cairo's urban density and will be equipped with cutting-edge technology to facilitate
its construction. It will include educational facilities, sports facilities, and diplomatic
facilities, amongst other things. However, because the money from the United
Arab Emirates was unsuccessful after it was announced in 2015, the military and the government
agreed to bear the cost of building phase one, which was estimated to be $25 billion
in off-budget investment. Additional loans and funding have been secured from abroad.
Because of the coronavirus pandemic, progress was slowed, and the government was unable
to complete Phase 1, which covers 168 square kilometers.
“Across all projects, the completion rate for the first phase has surpassed 60 percent,”
Khaled el-Husseiny, the spokesperson for the new capital, announced.
He also stated that the transfer of civil servants will be delayed for several months,
and the new administrative complex will be inaugurated sometime in 2021.
In order to showcase the capabilities of the country's future, the city is being designed
as a high-tech model. Infrastructure and security will be monitored
by control centers, and solar panels will be installed on roofs, according to officials.
Cashless payments will also be accepted, they added.
Husayn Husseiny stated that "we intend to eliminate all of the issues we had previously
encountered in the new capital." The finished city is expected to have a population
of approximately 6 million people, with the second and third phases being primarily residential.
While construction on the city continues, the rest of the country will be able to carry
on with its business as usual. This is due to the fact that Amr Khattab, the spokesperson
for the Housing Ministry, stated that this was the case.
Whether the Egyptian government is shifting its center of gravity away from Cairo, which
is 45 kilometers from the Nile, and toward the new capital, which is 45 kilometers from
the Nile, is still up in the air. Tens of thousands of homes are currently under construction,
either partially or completely, on the side of a highway leading into the new city, or
are already half-completed. The commercial district that has not yet been
marketed is expected to be finished in 2023. Construction has begun on a train that will
go to Cairo. This line will begin at Adly Mansour Station on Cairo Metro Line 3, and
split into two branches, with one line going to Robeiky. Each runner will run east of the
Cairo Ring Road, keeping parallel to it, to 10th of Ramadan City, while the other runner
will head in the opposite direction and move southwest to the New Administrative Capital.
Along the route of the train are the following intermediate cities: Obour, Shorouk, and Mostaqbal.
Giza will be connected to the new capital of Egypt, which is currently under construction,
via a monorail line. Egypt signed a contract with Siemens in January 2021 to construct
a high-speed rail line that extends from El Alamein, an important northern city on the
Mediterranean Sea, to Ain Sokhna, a red-dotted coastal city on the Red Sea. It is expected
that the 450 km line will be completed by 2023. During the later phases of the 1750
km high-speed network, the capital will be connected to various cities in southern Egypt,
such as Aswan. A total of around 5,000 out of the 20,000
housing units are expected to be sold in the May commercial district, says Khattab.
In late September, Sisi's office revealed that the Egyptian government was allocating
one and a half billion Egyptian pounds ($96 million) in monetary bonuses for civil servants
who are being selected to move to the city. Cities like London are said to have social
housing included in their long-term plans, and officials claim that it will finance itself
through property sales. However, it is unclear how much revenue these sales have generated.
About $3 billion has been spent on the government district, according to Husseiny. International
financing has been obtained for railway links, and a $3 billion Chinese loan has aided in
the development of the China State Construction Engineering Corp.'s commercial district, which
was constructed by China State Construction Engineering Corp. (CSCEC).
Sisi has proposed several large infrastructure projects and development strategies for the
country, and others won't be overlooked. The claim that we are leaving the cities of
Cairo, Alexandria, or Port Said is simply inaccurate. The president stated last week
that we will move forward with the old and the new working in tandem. The opening of
the capital city would be “the beginning of a new state,” he added.
Even though it is claimed that a new capital will reduce Cairo's traffic, there is also
fear that it will be costly and out of reach for many.
Electrician Alaa Ibrahim, 39, who lives in Cairo's impoverished Imbaba district, said,
“Some classes will be able
to live there, others won't.”