CAIRO - An Egyptian authority in charge of selling state land to developers has appealed Sunday an administrative court's decision to scrap a contract that allotted real estate to a unit of Talaat Moustafa Group. The New Urban Communities Authority said in a statement that July 17 had been set for a hearing aimed at blocking the ruling. The administrative court ruled on June 22 to cancel the contract that allotted 8,000 feddans (8,304 hectares) of land to Talaat Moustafa for its flagship Medinaty project. The company and the housing ministry said the project would not be affected by the ruling. Meanwhile, Hamdi el-Fakharani, a contractor who filed the lawsuit against Medinaty land sale, filed a a law suit against Minister of Housing Ahmed el-Maghrabi for allocating land for businessmen. "We ask for all lands sold to businessmen to be re-gained by the Government without a sale," el-Fakharani said.
