$735 million in US aid for Egyptian projects

A statement issued by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) in Cairo said that volume of the agency's economic aid to Egypt this year reached $735 million, by which Egypt occupies the first position in list of countries receiving aid, adding that this number is considered a topping for the economic and political stability in which Egypt currently enjoys.

The statement added that the agency will finance in its new plan Egyptian projects in fields of public health, mother's and children's health, education, irrigation, agriculture, potable water, healthy drainage, environment, energy, electricity and telephones.