Reconciliation requests over construction violations in Egypt surpass 2.3M

CAIRO – 18 November 2020: In the Cabinet's meeting Wednesday, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli stated the number of reconciliation requests over construction violations have surpassed 2.3 million.  

The government had extended the deadline for submitting requests pushing it from September 30 to October 30. Unlicensed units will be given ID number by the end of 2021, and the value of the reconciliation can be installed over three years.

On September 12, 2020, Madbouli said in a meeting with a number of Egyptian editors-in-chief and reporters in Kafr Saad, Qalyoubia governorate that Egypt has lost more than 400,000 feddans (one feddan equals about 1.038 acres) over 40 years, including 90,000 feddans since 2011 due to encroachment activities on the agriculture lands.