VIDEO - Sisi's inspection tour of Cairo-Sokhna Road

CAIRO – 20 April 2018: Egypt's presidency spokesperson Bassam Rady released a clip on Facebook showing footage of President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi's inspection tour of the ongoing expansion works carried out at the Cairo-Ain Sokhna road on Friday, along with the construction works of a number of other development projects.

During his inspection tour, President Sisi expressed his satisfaction over the progress of the development works that are taking place along the said road and he took pictures with the families there.



Egypt has been pushing forward with road and bridge network development projects as part of a national plan to improve the country's once ailing infrastructure.

The government has been prioritizing transportation infrastructure investments since President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi announced the National Roads Project (NRP) in August 2014 in a plan to construct 4,400 kilometres of new roads.

Around LE 22.5 billion have been spent on roads and bridges that were completed between 2014 and 2017, according to statements by Transport Minister Hisham Arafat in January 2018