Egypt’s president on Wednesday ordered his administration to start moving its offices next month to a sprawling new administrative capital in the desert outside Cairo, a spokesman said. President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi has directed the government to begin a six-month trial period of working from the new complex starting Dec. 1, according to his spokesman, Bassam Radi. It is being built on 170,000 acres about 28 miles (about 45 kilometers) east of Cairo and nearly twice its size.
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Egypt’s leader orders government to move to new capital
