Two Megacities Rise in the Sand

A highway that heads west out of Cairo was oftenly used by people who wanted to leave the cities chaos now ends at two cities are being built. The cause of this is because Cairo had long been so overcrowded, and polluted that the Egyptian government decided to built two new cities outside it from scratch. The Egyptian government already relocated most of the lower class folk who have been living in illegal slums in Cairo, though no one expects the government to demolish the makeshift neighborhoods that have been built because they make up to half of the city. Though they are some people who are claiming that the Egyptian government is relocating historical inequalities. But everyone agrees it is too late to turn back. Already millions of people have moved to the two new cities, New Cairo and 6 October City. The government plans that 6 October City's population to reach around 3 million by 2020 and New Cairo to 4 million.


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/25/world/africa/25egypt.html?partner=rss&emc=rss