Egypt to build tunnel 'under Suez Canal'

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi yesterday announced that his country was building a new tunnel under the country’s Suez Canal.

“We have built four tunnels in Sinai Peninsula and are building a fifth,” Sisi told reporters on the sidelines of the G20 summit which was held in Germany’s Berlin.

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“These infrastructure projects will be jointly administered by Egypt and Germany,” he pointed out.

Hailing the Egyptian-German partnerships, Sisi noted that there were “numerous partnerships with German energy companies.”

In May, Egypt inaugurated a number of tunnels linking Sinai to the cities of the Suez Canal and the country’s northern delta area.