The Egyptian government is building a city from scratch, which is to become its new capital by the middle of 2019. It’s not the first nation to do so; in the 1950s, Brazil commissioned architect Lúcio Costa to create an inclusive city, which embodied the state’s egalitarian ideals. Costa’s plan failed, and Brasília became unequal and segregated – but Nuno Pinto and Aya Badawy have some advice to help Egypt’s new capital avoid the same fate.

South Sudan has the world’s newest national football team. But the game has been played in the country for more than a century, adjusting through periods of colonial rule, and times of ethnic, religious and political tensions. Christopher Tounsel argues that understanding the game’s early influences can help shed light on the country’s tumultuous post-independence history.