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Egypt preparing for stage 3 of Victoria-Mediterranean project

The first phase of feasibility studies for the Victoria-Mediterranean Waterway Project will soon conclude, but funding for the next phase is still to be determined.
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CAIRO — The first phase of feasibility studies of the Victoria-Mediterranean Waterway Project is scheduled to be completed by the end of December, Ahmed Bahaa, head of the Nile water sector at the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation, told Al-Monitor. The waterway, to connect Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean Sea, would pass through all the Nile Basin countries — Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya, Congo, Uganda, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan and Egypt — to create a new river-rail network.

The goal of the project is to turn the Nile into a passageway for transportation and shipment from the heart of Africa to Europe via Egypt. This will require cleaning up the river, strengthening bridges and establishing new berths and ports in the participating countries and connecting the passageway to railway networks.

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