Red Sea governor warns non-compliant associations may lose their land agreements
Each association's land position was gone through with the Housing Directorate. The meeting also agreed on a joint charity exhibition with reduced-price goods before Ramadan, with no date or venue given.
11 November 2026
Red Sea Governor Walid El-Barqi has told community associations in the governorate to draw up a fixed timetable for the start and completion of building work on the plots allocated to them, and said the governorate is prepared to take legal action as far as cancelling its protocols with associations that do not keep to their terms.
The instruction came at his second meeting with representatives of the associations, where each body's land position was reviewed with the Housing Directorate. El-Barqi said the premises should work as genuine service centres — covering awareness and education, summer programmes, sports and help with children's schooling — rather than only handing out direct aid.
Associations at the meeting proposed gardens, clinics and road paving around their sites. The meeting also agreed to hold a joint charity exhibition before Ramadan together with the Supply Directorate and the Chamber of Commerce, offering goods at reduced prices. No date or venue for it was given.