ISMAILIA Derek Rivers Jersey , Egypt, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- Chairman of the Suez Canal Authority, Mohab Mamish, said on Saturday that 65 ships passed through the artificial water passage carrying a record load of 4.3 million tons.


In a press release on Saturday, Mamish said that three of the world largest containers carrying 150 Duke Dawson Jersey ,000-200,000 tons have crossed the Suez Canal today, which was impossible to happen in one day before the running of the new branch of the canal.


In August 2015, Egypt opened a new 35 km waterway alongside the original 190 km Suez Canal, plus a 37 km expansion and deepening of some parts of the existing one.


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ACCRA, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo on Tuesday officially launched the Free Senior High School program, which is the government's flagship policy on education.


About 400,000 students are expected to benefit from the education policy which started across the country on Monday.


The initiative, which is also aimed at making SHS the minimum academic qualification in Ghana Devin McCourty Jersey , will exempt them from paying for tuition and other essential fees.


Akufo-Addo said by removing cost which was one of the biggest obstacles which currently stood in the way of the students, the policy would ensure that no child was denied access to secondary education.


He said the cost of providing free secondary school education would be cheaper than the cost of the alternative of an uneducated and unskilled workforce that had the capacity to retard the country's development.


Statistics indicate that over the last four years, an average of 100,000 students who are placed in public senior high schools each, after completing their basic education Stephen Gostkowski Jersey , do not take up their place.


This means that in the next decade, about one million young men and women would have had their education terminated at junior high school.


"Such a situation is totally unacceptable, and I am determined to end it. This is why my government is, today, beginning the implementation of the Free Senior High School Policy Dont'a Hightower Jersey ," he said.


He said the government had decided to use the proceeds from the nation's numerous natural resources, including oil and gas, to help educate the population drive Ghana's economic transformation.


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