The Government of Tanzania has launched the construction of a new capital city, with a price tag of $5 billion. The city, named Magufuli, would be a new administrative capital for the East African ...

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Jakarta, Busway in Bundaran. Image © Om khonjin via WIkipedia under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 The Indonesian parliament has approved a bill to relocate the capital from ...

This story has been updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy. Monday marks Columbus Day, a federal holiday commemorating the anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the ...

Vast ceremonial spaces, a presidential palace and the largest mosque in Africa have been captured in these photographs of Egypt's New Administrative Capital, taken by Johan Blasberg. Taken earlier ...