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Egypt
Sisi seeks Chinese solution as IMF and creditors close in

Cairo is to raise capital on the Chinese markets as the IMF insists on conditions previously set for disbursing a second tranche of a loan approved last December. Beijing is already the country's fourth largest creditor. [...]

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