São Paulo – The São Paulo City Hall will welcome two officials from Cairo City Hall as of next Monday (8th). The meeting is intended to foster technical cooperation in different areas of public administration in Latin America’s biggest city, São Paulo, and Africa’s biggest city, Cairo. The schedule has not been set yet, but they should meet with São Paulo deputy mayor Nádia Campeão on Thursday (11th).
The officials travelling to São Paulo are the Cairo City Hall Public Transportation director Rizk Ali Mostafa and the head of the Technical Secretariat of the Cairo Cleaning & Beautification Agency (CCBA), Mahmoud Ahmed Mansour. According to the Egyptian embassy in Brasília, they want to see São Paulo’s waste treatment system, roads and public transportation management and anti-violence policies, among other challenges shared by the two cities.
São Paulo was chosen by the staff at Cairo city hall because both cities are large metropolitan areas, present similar problems and challenges and are two of the largest urban centers of their regions.
The proposal was presented by the Egyptians and, according to the embassy, was “very well-received by the São Paulo administration”. São Paulo has an approximate population of 11.8 million people, and Cairo, 9 million. São Paulo has 1,500 square kilometers of area, and Cairo, approximately 460 km².
Still according to Egypt’s embassy, the intention of Cairo city hall’s representatives is to meet with technicians and secretaries of the public transportation and traffic departments and visit agencies and secretaries of São Paulo’s administration. Another intention of Cairo’s staff is to sign a memorandum of understanding between the two administrations to promote technical cooperation in several areas.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum and Sérgio Kakitani
