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Egypt's Sinai Mountains Project Threatens the People of St Catherine
The $300-million project is 90% complete despite UNESCO concerns; locals report graves uprooted and nature reserve damage amid economic development goals.
- In recent years, Egypt has undertaken a vast megaproject at Saint Catherine including five-star hotels and a Steigenberger resort, but heritage experts and locals say bulldozers damaged the nature reserve and UNESCO site.
- Framed as an economic boost, the project called the `Great Transfiguration` aims to increase tourism and development, with the Egyptian government touting consultation while locals say concerns were ignored.
- Bulldozers levelled the town cemetery, forcing exhumation of hundreds of bodies, and the gravesite was turned into a car park, while Egyptian courts ruled the Saint Catherine monastery sits on state land.
- Following watchdog appeals, UNESCO requested Egypt halt further development, conduct an impact evaluation and develop a conservation plan; last month it elected Khaled El-Enany as chief, during whose tenure the Saint Catherine project began.
- Locals face eviction fears and disrupted lives as the Jabaliya Bedouin community warns the project threatens their ancestral land, while residents across the country say compensation for demolished homes falls short.
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Egypt's Sinai mountain megaproject threatens the people of St Catherine
Atop one of Egypt's Sinai mountains, near where the three Abrahamic faiths say God spoke with Moses, another unmistakable sound rings out: the incessant drilling of construction work.
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