El Sisi announces EGP 100 bn development project in Sinai

Grand infrastructure plans: Egypt will spend EGP 100 bn on a construction project in Sinai, President Abdel Fattah El Sisi announced, according to Reuters. “We have entrusted the ministry of housing and the engineering authority with a national project of comprehensive urban planning,” El Sisi says. He added that the project would be “carried out whether he remained in power or not.”