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  • Monday, 23 January, 2023
    Yezid Sayigh
    Sisi cannot ignore the Egyptian military’s economic role forever

    Cairo’s agreement with the IMF commits it to reducing the presence of the state in numerous sectors

  • Sunday, 22 January, 2023
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Egypt releases prominent businessmen detained on terrorism charges

    Safwan and Seif el-Din Thabet had been held for about two years without charge

  • Tuesday, 17 January, 2023
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Egypt’s deepening economic crisis

    Sisi needs to shrink the role of the state and military-owned companies

  • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
    Egypt’s pound plunges to new low as authorities try to stem currency crisis

    Country has shifted to more flexible exchange rate as part of $3bn IMF rescue deal

  • Tuesday, 10 January, 2023
    Egypt vows to cut military’s outsized role in economy under IMF bailout

    Al-Sisi regime agrees to reforms over state ownership in the face of financial crisis

  • Wednesday, 4 January, 2023
    Egypt’s pound sinks to new low in biggest fall since October devaluation

    North African country agreed to let its currency fluctuate as part of $3bn IMF deal

  • Sunday, 1 January, 2023
    News in-depth
    ‘There are no dollars’: foreign currency crunch hits Egypt’s economy

    Cairo says banks will soon be able to help importers clear backlog of goods at ports worth $9.5bn

  • Sunday, 4 December, 2022
    Ruchir Sharma
    The easy money era is over but world leaders have not got the memo

    Free-spending governments are being punished if they don’t abandon unorthodox policy

  • Saturday, 26 November, 2022
    COP27
    COP27 delegates rubbed shoulders with energy executives ready to cut deals

    Climate change summit turned into a ‘trade fair’

  • Friday, 18 November, 2022
    COP27
    COP27 communications group lambasted over work for fossil-fuel industry

    Hill+Knowlton Strategies draws ire from scientists for ‘incompatible’ representations

  • Wednesday, 16 November, 2022
    LexRenewable energy
    Green ammonia: high energy prices hint at proof of concept Premium content

    Pungent compound could be an unlikely decarbonisation hero

  • Tuesday, 15 November, 2022
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    COP27 puts the spotlight on Egypt’s human rights record

    Western capitals should use diplomatic and economic leverage with President Sisi

  • Tuesday, 15 November, 2022
    Travel
    Cruising the Nile aboard Agatha Christie’s original steamer

    Eighty-five years since its publication, ‘Death on the Nile’ is still in print — and the ship that inspired it is back in service

  • Tuesday, 15 November, 2022
    Egypt battles climate change as world’s eyes turn to COP27

    Farmers struggle to make ends meet in unpredictable weather that has become the ‘new normal’

  • Friday, 11 November, 2022
    Human rights
    Plight of Egyptian dissident Alaa Abdel Fattah overshadows COP27

    Climate conference gives Egypt’s human rights activists unprecedented global platform

  • Tuesday, 8 November, 2022
    Special ReportManaging Climate Change
    Cairo sets agenda for ‘the African COP’ at Red Sea resort

    Egyptian hosts plan to stress the interests of the developing world at climate change summit

  • Sunday, 6 November, 2022
    News in-depthCOP27
    COP27 shines spotlight on Egypt’s rights abuses

    Activists hope western leaders will use climate conference to put pressure on Cairo’s autocratic rulers

  • Saturday, 5 November, 2022
    News in-depthClimate Capital
    Dark clouds overshadow opening of COP27 climate summit in Egypt

    Rich countries’ willingness to pay poorer nations to ditch fossil fuels is being put to the test

  • Monday, 31 October, 2022
    The Big Read
    Egypt and the IMF: will Sisi take the economy out of the military’s hands?

    The global crisis has magnified the fragility of the country’s state-driven economic model and forced it to take out new multilateral loans

  • Sunday, 30 October, 2022
    UK politics & policy
    Sunak signals he could attend UN climate summit

    Prime minister may U-turn on decision not to go to COP27 following criticism by Tory MPs

  • Thursday, 27 October, 2022
    Egypt reaches $3bn IMF loan deal after agreeing to float currency

    Egyptian pound plunges 14.5% after Cairo moves to flexible exchange rate demanded by fund

  • Wednesday, 26 October, 2022
    HTSIHTSI’s 12 top picks from a year in travel
    Eternal Egypt – a journey out of time

    The country’s ancient wonders still hold us spellbound, but its pulsing, intense present is just as intoxicating

  • Monday, 10 October, 2022
    Special ReportManaging Climate Change
    Egypt’s climate activists fear consequences of COP27 protest

    The government promises to permit dissent, but some environmental groups remain wary

  • Wednesday, 17 August, 2022
    Central Bank of Egypt
    Egypt’s central bank governor resigns

    Official quits as Arab state struggles with foreign currency shortage and economic fallout of Ukraine conflict

  • Sunday, 24 July, 2022
    Russian politics
    Sergei Lavrov on Africa tour to counter accusation Russia is ‘exporting hunger’

    Russian foreign minister to visit Ethiopia, Uganda and the Republic of the Congo after Egypt on Sunday

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