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How Egypt Turned Its Nile Banks Into Investment Assets (2017–2026)

Nine years of incremental steps: exclusions, auctions, demolitions, inventories

"Nine years of incremental steps — from removing islands from nature reserves to listing 136 Nile-front plots for investors"
2017

17 Nile islands removed from natural reserve protection

2022

Removal orders for 32 residential houseboats in Kit Kat district

Dec. 2022

Military Land Projects Agency auctions Nile riverbank plots (11 zones) — annual usufruct system

Mar. 2023

Auction repeated for 8 additional zones — Military Land Agency

Apr. 2023

Cabinet announces inventory of Nile assets for investment

Aug. 2025

Preliminary inventory discussed with PM; Law 168 enacted

Aug. 2026

37 structures demolished along 8 km in Manil Shiha

Sep. 2026

136 plots announced as ready for investor marketing

Source: Multiple journalistic and official sources / presidential and government decrees