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Egypt
Population: 111.6m
GDP: $399.5bn
Debt: 85% of GDP (2026 forecast)

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Cairo chairs a debtors’ revolt – will the borrowers club punch through?

Egypt's finance minister Ahmed Kouchouk will lead a UN-backed Borrowers' Platform for collective debt negotiation but the creditors who matter most will be outside the room

The borrowers’ platform – backed by the UN Conference on Tade and Development (UNCTAD) as secretariat and drawing in developing country finance ministers and central bank governors –...

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A vulnerable recovery under pressure

The Iran war is battering an already fragile economy, though Egypt could still reap some gains from the crisis

Whenever Egypt is hit by external shocks or domestic turmoil, one of the first economic reactions is a flight of short-term capital. The current crisis has been no...

Would-be Pharoah builds big at the pyramids

Economic woes threaten to collapse President Abdel Fattah el Sisi’s new castles built on sand

Egypt is mired in geopolitical crises and financial deficits – underwritten by Gulf states that increasingly want to turn a profit for their dollars from an economy that...

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Doha pledges $30bn for Sisi’s tourism project

Deal is latest example of increasingly warm ties between Egypt and Qatar

A US$29.7 billion investment from Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund to develop a major real estate and tourism project on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast is the latest evidence of close...

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Khartoum rebuffs US-Arab peace roadmap

Calling for a three-month humanitarian truce and banning Islamists, the Quad plan brings civilian politicians into talks for a post-war transition

After multiple failed attempts to chart a route out of Sudan’s devastating civil war, the statement by the Quad – Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and the...

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Sisi threatens push back on IMF terms

The President has warned he may need to renegotiate loan agreements as his state faces the costs of instability in the region

Egypt may need to renegotiate its US$8 billion loan agreement with the International Monetary Fund as it faces the costs of regional instability, President Abdel Fattah el Sisi...

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Middle powers line up behind Addis and Mogadishu

Egypt and Somalia have signed a military pact to scupper Ethiopia’s trade-off with Somaliland for a port in the Gulf of Aden

Nothing better illustrates the radical shift in regional relations than the defence agreement signed by Egypt and the Federal Government of Somalia on 14 August, two days after...

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