Egypt’s outgoing President Adly Mansour has approved allocating 398.6 acres of state land to the ministry of trade, industry and investment establish a developed industrial zone for leather tanneries.

The to-be-established zone, called Al-Robeky, is 54 km east of Cairo.

Al-Ahram's Arabic news website reported on Thursday that the allocated land includes 143.3 acres belonging to Egypt's military.

Mansour is due to leave office on Sunday following the swearing-in ceremony of president-elect Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi.