Egypt in ambitious Suez Canal makeover

[CAIRO] When the Suez Canal opened in 1869, it had taken hundreds of thousands of Egyptian workers 10 years to complete it.

On Tuesday, President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said he was ready to build another one.

At a lavish groundbreaking ceremony that included a military air show and the symbolic detonation of demolition explosives, his government announced an ambitious plan to build a new waterway that would expand the capacity of the existing canal, while creating jobs and revenue for the government.