Egyptian Minister of Irrigation Mohamed Abdel AtiCAIRO – 28 September 2018: Egyptian Minister of Irrigation Mohamed Abdel Ati traveled to Kampala, Uganda on Sept. 26 to attend the closing of the Averting Flood Risks Project’s first phase in Kasese, Uganda.The minister stated that he is pleased to be in the brotherly country and to attend the closing of the project’s phase one which was finalized in Feb. 2018.The Egyptian minister was welcomed by the Ugandan Minister of Water and Environment Sam Cheptoris on Wednesday, Sept. 26. The ministry started to execute a project to protect the country’s citizens and properties within the framework of the technical cooperation between both countries.A group of the Egyptian ministry’s experts were sent in a mission to examine the area and collect the required data to implement an urgent project to secure the country against flood dangers. The mission identified some high priority areas in grave danger.A memorandum of understanding for the project was signed by both ministries in April 2016 in order for the project to be executed in several phases. The first phase was assigned to El-Mokawloon El-Arab (Arab contractors), one of the biggest Egyptian companies operating in Uganda and it officially started in March 13, 2017 and ended in Feb 2018, the minister of irrigation stated.Ugandan Minister of Water and Environment Cheptoris expressed his pleasure with the technical cooperation between Egypt and Uganda in the fields of irrigation and water resources. He added that this is obvious in the three developmental projects; The Egyptian-Ugandan Project to Resist Sea Grass, Controlling Sea Grass in Kyoga and Albert Lakes’ Project and the third project includes building five tanks to reserve rain water, building several boreholes and training Ugandan workers in the fields of water resources and irrigation.

Source: Egypt Today September 27, 2018 23:26 UTC