What is the cause of red lumps on the back, neck and chest and when squeezed lots of blood appears. The bleeding more What is the cause of red lumps on the back, neck and chest and when squeezed lots of blood appears. The bleeding would last for approx 20-30minutes.
Although the Suez Canal wasn't officially completed until 1869, there is a long history of interest in connecting both the Nile River in Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea.
A century and a half later, another Egyptian leader seeking to make his mark on history, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, decided to expand the Suez Canal. Like Said Pasha before him, Sisi sees in the canal a symbol of Egypt's glory and prosperity, and of independence since its nationalisation in 1956.