Egypt kicks off more Sinai development projects
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has inaugurated a series of major development projects in the Sinai Peninsula, long a hotbed for terrorism.
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi attended the April 22 inauguration of a number of national projects in Sinai designed to boost the country’s economy amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.
The projects include the last phase of drilling for the strategic Ahmed Hamdy Tunnel 2 in the Suez Canal. It is the fifth tunnel to be constructed beneath the canal, to link Sinai, an area of 60,000 square kilometers or about 6% of Egypt’s territory, with the rest of the country.
The tunnel was named after an Egyptian general who was killed while crossing the Suez Canal with his soldiers during the October War against Israel in 1973. The other four tunnels are located in the Ismailia and Port Said coastal governorates.
Sisi also attended the opening of the Mahsama water treatment plant in the northeastern city of Ismailia, east of the canal.
