SHARE Egypt will create thousands of jobs and spend billions of dollars on a revamp of its overcrowded rail system, the government announced this week. In a speech to members of parliament, Minister of Transport Kamel Al Wazir outlined the ministry’s plans up to 2024, including upgrading roads, bridges and metro lines. Plans to build new land ports, improve the Nile river transport system, and connecting Egypt with African neighbours through a road from Cairo to Cape Town were also detailed. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum view a scale model of the new Egyptian administrative capital. AFP