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  Egypt consumer inflation falls to 11.1 pct in September

  Egypt's annual urban consumer inflation fell to 11.1 percent in September from 11.5 percent in August, CAPMAS, the official statistics agency, said on Thursday.   Read More
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  Egypt's pound steady on official market, stronger on black market

  Egypt's pound held steady at a central bank dollar sale on Thursday, when the bank said it sold $37.4 million at a cut-off price of 7.1401 pounds per dollar.   Read More
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  Egypt's foreign minister meets with Sudanese counterpart

  Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri is scheduled to hold talks Thursday with his Sudanese counterpart Ali Karti regarding regional and international issues of common interest and to promote cooperation between Cairo and Khartoum.   Read More
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  Egypt consumer inflation fell to 11.1 pct in September

  Egypt's annual urban consumer inflation fell to 11.1 percent in September from 11.5 percent in August, the official statistics agency CAPMAS said on Thursday   Read More

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  From jubilation in Tahrir, Egypt returns to Mubarak-era politics

  Dates for the next vote have yet to be set. But former NDP members, from small-town notables such as Azb to big names like ex-foreign minister Amr Moussa, are planning their comebacks.   Read More

  
  
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  Militants, weapons transit Gaza tunnels despite Egyptian crackdown

  A third of the houses on the main street of this Bedouin town near Egypt's border with Gaza look derelict, but inside they buzz with the activity of tunnel smugglers scrambling to survive a security crackdown by the Egyptian army.   Read More

  
  
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  Reforming Egypt's black market - high hurdles, big rewards

  The economist behind a plan to unlock at least $380 billion (222 billion pounds) worth of assets from Egypt's black market says President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi must first restore another asset that has depreciated over the years: the trust of a wary public.   Read More

  
  
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  Egyptians fear Islamist militants gathering on Libyan border

  Tribal leaders there say Sisi, former head of the army, urged them to help Egypt confront what could be a security nightmare for the biggest Arab nation: Islamist militants operating just over the frontier in Libya.   Read More

  
  
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  More people, less water mean rising food imports for Egypt

  In the northwest corner of the Nile Delta, Ibrahim Sharaf Al-Dein fires up his diesel-powered pump next to a murky canal only to watch it spew out a yellowish froth.   Read More