Egypt is building a NEW CAPITAL in the Desert
It is in the middle of the desert that the future Egyptian capital is being built, more precisely forty-five kilometers east of Cairo, between Cairo, the current capital of Egypt, and the city of Suez. However, the future capital is inside the Cairo governorate and since the latter is the capital of Egypt, it is said that the future capital will be "a new satellite city of Cairo".
Since the third month of 2018, no name has been given to the construction project for the future capital of Egypt. And to make matters easier, it has been given a temporary name: “NAC”, which is the acronym for “New Administrative Capital”.
However, many other names are ironically given to it in particular by the detractors of the project, such as “Madinat Sissi” in Arabic, or “Sissi-City” in English which means “The city of Sissi”, to underline the pharaonic, personal character. and proactive about the project; or the name “Wedian City” because the project is made up of twelve distinct valleys which will serve as hubs for different sectors; or the commentators who call it “Future City”, a name given to it during its official presentation.
Since independence, many Egyptian rulers have embarked on plans to build a new city in the desert, and all aimed to unclog the Nile Valley, where the country's only Arab lands are located, and it didn’t work - which makes the project of "future new Egyptian capital" a deja vu for the Egyptians.
In 1974, for example, the plan was to develop eighteen new towns, all located in the deserts east or west of the river.
And, between 1977 and 2000, there were twenty-two projects that went well, especially under “Sadat” and “Mubarak”. When Abdel Fattah al-Sisi came to power in 2014, he was very interested in the construction project of the new city and thus quickly launched the project. It was in March 2015, in Sharm el-Sheikh, that he presented the project to the international community.
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