President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi issued Thursday decree No. 224 of 2018 on the approval of a loan agreement between the government of Egypt and the Kuwait Fund for Economic Development signed in Cairo on March 13. <\/p>\n
Worth KWD 60 million, the loan comes for the tunnel project, Sharm el-Sheikh, which is part of the program of the Sinai Peninsula development. <\/p>\n
In March, Minister of Investment and International Cooperation Sahar Nasr signed five agreements with Kuwait Fund for Development’s General Director Abdel Wahab al-Badr, with a total value of KWD 86.1 million ($287 million\/LE 5 billion), within the framework of developing Sinai. <\/p>\n
The value of the first agreement is KWD 60 million to contribute in financing the Sharm el-Sheikh tunnel project, as part of the government’s program for developing Sinai. <\/p>\n
Previously, Badr pointed out that the fund has financed about 45 projects in Egypt in the fields of electricity, transport, industry, drinking water and sanitation by about $2.8 billion, in addition to grants and technical support of about $13.5 million. <\/p>\n
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