Inside Cairo's desert ghost towns

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A new housing development in New Cairo.
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A golf course for residents of the SODIC built compound 'Westown' is proving hard to keep alive, even before any residents have moved in to the compound.
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A street cleaner removes sand from the roadside in New Cairo. Each week teams of workers shovel several tons of sand fromthe road network, most of which blows in from the surrounding desert.
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The name of a new plot of desert land set to be developed to the west ofCairo is erected before any other work has taken place.
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