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PM Chairs First Meeting in New Alamein City


Wed 24 Jul 2019 | 10:07 AM
NaDa Mustafa

Egypt’s Prime Minister (PM) Moustafa Madbouli chaired on Wednesday first cabinet weekly meeting at the new government headquarters in new Alamein city.

They discussed a number of political، economic and social files, in addition to a series of reports concerning services provided to citizens, as well as the position of national projects currently taking place in various provinces.

Moreover, the meeting tackled the governments’ efforts to control markets, and to provide basic commodities for citizens in reasonable prices.

The governmental headquarters building consists of a ground floor, four upper floors, a meeting room, ministerial suites and a media centre.

New Alamein City

The new Alamein city is located in the North coast and is set to be the first of its kind in the area.

Designed to the high standards of what is called a fourth-generation city, the new Alamein city is planned to hold millions of residents, hitting a new milestone for the North coast area.

President Abdel Fattah El Sisi inaugurated the first phase of the New Alamein City in 2018.

The first phase is comprised of two main parts, totaling 8,000 acres, and housing 400,000 residents.

New Alamein city includes a national university that comprises a number of applied science faculties, an opera house, a library and a museum.

The city is located on an area of 48,000 feddans (one feddan equals 1.038 acres) in El Alamein town on Egypt's Mediterranean coast and it is designed to include 5,000 housing units to accommodate more than 400,000 inhabitants.

The coastal part of the first phase is pided into three sectors: the international tourism sector, the archaeological sector, and an urban sector.