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Sisi Directs Gov't to Draw Lessons from Recent Weather Turmoil


Wed 18 Mar 2020 | 10:10 AM
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The Egyptian president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi held a meeting on Tuesday with the Prime Minister Dr. Moustafa Madbouli to discuss the government efforts to contain the crisis of torrential rains that hit Egypt last week.

The meeting was attended by ministers of electricity and renewable energy, local development, housing, utilities and urban communities, transport, and head of administrative control authority.

On his part, the president directed the government to draw lessons learned from the challenges faced by the state in dealing with torrents. He also ordered the immediate action to repair all damages caused by torrential rain in all governorates.

It is noteworthy that Egypt incurred heavy losses, due to the wave of bad weather, including, EGP 400 million by the electricity sector, EGP 100 million for fixing transportation and roads, and EGP 650 million for the development of El-Zarayeb area of the 15 May suburb in southern Cairo.

The president has previously expressed gratitude to all Egyptian people and government for dealing with the bad and unstable weather the country has not experienced since 1994.

Egypt has witnessed unstable and unprecedented weather conditions that haven’t happened for more than 35 years.

Sisi added that the state, with its executive apparatus and security institutions, has tackled very complex climatic conditions not familiar to the country.

“I thank all the officials and inpiduals whose responsibility forced them to monitor the situation and contain its severe effects, in the field, from the heart of the event,” he noted.

The Egyptian president stated that he was proud of the Egyptian society, whose members have shown a high spirit of cooperation, loyalty and interdependence, adding that “We are together, hand in hand… stronger than anything.”

Last week, Madbouli announced that about 20 person passed away across Egypt due to the bad weather, stressing that Egypt had not witnessed such unstable weather conditions for nearly 35 or 40 years.