An Egyptian Bedouin woman attends her sheep in the coastal town of Al-Arish, northern Sinai (Photo: AP)
Egypt's military is pumping LE400 million of its funds into North Sinai development projects to coincide with the 30th anniversary of Israel's return of the territory, the state-run Al-Ahram newspaper reported on Wednesday.
Sinai Liberation Day, 25 April, is a national holiday that marks Israel's final military withdrawal from the peninsula in 1982.
The North Sinai projects detailed in the Al-Ahram report are worth LE400 million ($66.6 million) and involve developing residential and industrial sectors, as well as infrastructure, in the border governorate.
Plans include:
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Building five 'pioneer' villages which will include craft workshops and homes for local Bedouin
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Restoring homes, building new petrol stations, repairing public utilities and digging irrigation wells
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Spending around LE230 million ($38.3m) in developing the port at Al-Arish, creating new jobs for citizens in the governorate capital
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An extra 1,000 housing units in Eastern Al-Arish
(This article was amended to correct a currency error. It previously suggested the figure was $400 million, not LE400 million)
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