Sisi to inaugurate 5 projects in Sinai on April 25

CAIRO – 18 April 2018: President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi will inaugurate five developmental and infrastructural projects in Sinai via video conference during the celebration of Sinai Liberation Day on April 25.

These projects are: Rumaila 3 desalination plant; two sewage stations, one in Hamam city and the other in Dabaa city; East Matrouh electricity transformer station and a water lifter in the new city of Dabaa.

Rumaila 3 project is a desalination plant with a productive capacity of 12,000 cubic meters per day that will come into force besides Rumaila 1 and 2 plants that produce 24,000 cubic meters per day each. The productive capacity of the three plants will reach 60,000 cubic meters per day.

The sewage station in Hamam city will produce 15,000 meters per day, while the sewage station in Dabaa city comes with a capacity of 14,000 cubic meters per day.

Moreover, the electricity station, East Matrouh, is located in Kilo 29 on the Matrouh-Alexandria Road, with a capacity of 25 mega volt ampere (MVA). The total cost of the station is LE 75 million. It will be an alternative source of electricity for the al-Alban station that is currently feeding the city.

The new electricity station will also transmit electricity to Rumaila desalination plants.
As for the water lifter project, it will have a productive capacity of 5,000 cubic meters per day.

"Egypt has put forward a plan to develop Sinai, which started in 2014 and will continue until 2022," President Sisi said in February. He said that the cost of Sinai development will reach LE 275 billion.

Minister of Investment Sahar Nasr signed earlier five agreements with Kuwait Fund for Development General Director Abdel Wahab al-Badr, with a total value of KWD 86.1 million ($287 million/LE 5 billion) to finance Sinai development.

The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group has also allocated $3 billion over three years for its new cooperation strategy with Egypt (2018-2020), which will support a number of development projects in Egypt.

Sinai liberation day is the anniversary of the liberation of the Sinai Peninsula on April 25, celebrating the withdrawal of the last Israeli soldier from the city of Taba in 1988, and recovering the land of Sinai.