Cairo, Yamoussoukro eye
 co-operation in housing

Minister el-Gazzar explained to his guest Egypt’s housing experience of the past years, including its construction of housing units of different types within the national social housing scheme.

He also briefed Minister Koné about the national project for the eradication of slums, which includes the relocation of slum dwellers to safe housing, and the construction of new cities in Egypt.

“Cairo is ready to transfer its expertise in housing and new cities to Yamoussoukro,” the Egyptian minister said.

The housing projects implemented in Egypt in the past years, he added, aimed to provide housing patterns suiting all social strata.

He said Egypt constructed 250,000 flats for slum dwellers in the past few years.

The new housing units were constructed, the minister said, within state efforts to achieve social justice and give slum dwellers a basic human right, namely the right to safe housing.

Minister el-Gazzar noted that the government also expanded the construction of new cities to achieve the goal of national strategic plan of expanding the urban space.

Minister Koné, for his part, said his country wants to cement co-operation with the Egyptian private sector and the government in the coming period.

He reviewed his country’s needs in the field of housing, especially social housing, and the development of slums.

Côte d’Ivoire, he said, has already introduced reforms to its housing policies.

Egypt, he said, is the first country he visits after the reform of the national housing policy in Côte d’Ivoire.

Minister Koné noted that he was keen to visit Cairo to benefit from the Egyptian housing experience.