UPDATED: Egypt’s Sisi inaugurates a host of national projects in Sinai

UPDATED: Egypt’s Sisi inaugurates a host of national projects in Sinai

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi attended on Saturday the opening ceremony of the King Salman International University in the resort city of Sharm El-Sheikh.

The university comprises 15 faculties distributed among its three branches in El-Tor, Ras Sedr, and Sharm El-Sheikh cities, and can accommodate over 25,000 students, according to a video played during the inauguration. 

The president opened the two other branches in El-Tor and Ras Sedr via video-conference.

The university provides professional and academic programmes to prepare qualified human resources to meet the needs of the local, regional and international labour markets.

Egypt's higher education minister Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar said the university is an example of the friendship and cooperation between Egypt and Saudi Arabia to develop the Sinai Peninsula.

"The King Salman University branch in Sharm El-Sheikh