Top Headlines
- Egypt reaches $3bn IMF loan deal after agreeing to float currency
- Egyptian pound dives after shift to flexible currency and IMF deal
- British PM Rishi Sunak will not attend climate summit COP 27 in Egypt next month
- Egypt launches COP 27
- Egypt halts dialogue with Turkey over Libya’s policies
- U.S. Embassy Cairo issues a demonstration alert
- EU funds border control deal in Egypt with migration via Libya on rise
- Egypt to plant wheat in Congo amid water shortage
Main Headlines
Monday
- Egypt launches COP27 App on iOS and Google Play-store
- Egypt shuts down event spaces on first Monday of Cop27 in blow to NGOs
- Egypt says it hopes King Charles will attend COP27, urges UK not to backslide on climate pledges
- Letter of credit system for imports to be cancelled within 2 months: Egypt PM
Tuesday
- Egypt’s Sisi: Egypt needs EGP 20 trillion investment annually
- High profile controversial lawyer Farid El-Dib, Mubarak’s lead defence, dies aged 79
- Heavy rain leaves Cairo streets flooded, hits many provinces of Egypt
Wednesday
- Fitch affirms Egypt at ‘B+’; outlook stable
- UAE’s direct investments in Egypt registers $4.6bn in first 9 months of FY2022
- Egypt’s LNG production has risen slightly amid higher prices: World Bank
Thursday
- Egypt reaches $3bn IMF loan deal after agreeing to float currency
- Egyptian pound dives dives after shift to flexible currency and IMF deal
- COP27: British PM Rishi Sunak will not attend climate summit in Egypt next month
- National Bank of Egypt issues new 3-year-maturity saving certificates with 17.25% annual yield saving certificates
Friday
- U.S. Embassy Cairo issues a demonstration alert https://eg.usembassy.gov/demonstration-alert-u-s-embassy-cairo-october-28-2022/#.Y17YS-1sFmc.twitter
- King Charles will not go to Cop27 in Egypt, No 10 confirms
- UN, UK, Italy and Egypt students debate climate issues in Kazakhstan before COP27
Saturday
- Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will travel to Egypt for COP27 climate conference
- Egypt halts dialogue with Turkey over because the latter showed no signs in changing its policies about Libya, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry
Sunday
- EU funds border control deal in Egypt with migration via Libya on rise
- Egyptian pound sinks further against dollar after flexibility pledge
- CBE’s recent measures harsh but necessarily: BLOM’s Former VP
Reports
- Desperate for Dollars? A brief explainer of what the devaluation of the Egyptian pound means. Egyptian Streets
- Egypt to plant wheat in Congo amid water shortage. Mohamed Sabry
- Egypt seeks new agriculture, food security cooperation with Africa. Rasha Mahmoud
- First climate-related fatwa prohibiting environmentally harmful practices issued in Egypt. Ayah Aman
- COP27: What is the Egypt climate conference and why is it important? Esme Stallard
Read
- Eternal Egypt– a journey out of time. Gilles Khoury
- Egypt’s new £889 million museum is fit for a pharoah.Tom Mueller
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