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Qatar to invest $18bn in Egypt

  • Qatar: Sunday, September 09 - 2012 at 11:08

Qatar's foreign minister, Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim has said the Gulf country plans to inject $18bn worth of investments into Egypt over the course of the coming five years, Ahram has reported. Some $8bn of the total will be allocated to electricity and natural gas projects in areas east of the Suez Canal, where Egypt has longstanding plans to build a massive industrial city, said Sheikh Hamad. Another $10bn will go to a planned tourist resort on Egypt's north coast, he added.

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