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Egypt
Cairo · Egyptian pound (EGP) · COMESA
Reference
- Capital
- Cairo
- Currency
- Egyptian pound · EGP
- Central bank
- Central Bank of Egypt
- Regional membership
- COMESA — Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
- Official languages
- Arabic
- Stock exchange
- Egyptian Exchange (EGX)
- Instant payments
- InstaPay (Instant Payment Network)
- Regulatory sandbox
- CBE Regulatory Sandbox
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Figures
- GDP (current US$)
- $365.3 bn · 2025
- GDP growth (annual %)
- 4.4% · 2025
- Population
- 118.4 m · 2025
- Inflation, consumer prices (annual %)
- 14.1% · 2025
- Personal remittances received (current US$)
- $41.5 bn · 2025
- Exchange rate · EGP
- 50.25 EGP per US dollar · 2026-08-29
World Bank, World Development Indicators, via the World Bank API; year as published. Mid-market reference from exchangerate-api.com, refreshed daily; not a dealing rate.
Headlines · 9
From the AllAfrica country feed and pan-African newsrooms; each item links to the original.
Africanews
US due to cut off UAE branches of Egypt's Banque Misr over Iran ties
The US Treasury Department is due to cut off a major Egyptian bank's operations in the United Arab Emirates from the US financial system, an official said Friday, as Washington pushes to choke Iran off economically.
The Guardian Africa
Egyptian queen’s 673-diamond necklace stolen in Vienna smash-and-grab raid
Police hunt two suspects after historic 200-carat piece is snatched from Austrian museum during opening hours Austrian police are hunting two men alleged to have stolen a 200-carat platinum necklace encrusted with 673…
AllAfrica · Egypt
Road to Egypt Mapped Out Following TotalEnergies CAF U-23 Afcon 2027 Qualifiers Draw
[CAF] 42 nations will compete for seven places alongside hosts Egypt at the TotalEnergies CAF U-23 AFCON 2027 Three qualifying rounds to be played between September 2026 and March 2027 Final tournament will form part of…
AllAfrica · Egypt
Egypt Must Compensate Ethiopia for Abay Water Resources - Former Water Minister
[ENA] Addis Ababa -- Former Water Minister Shiferaw Jarso called on the Ethiopian government to press Egypt for compensation over its use of Abay (Nile) water resources, stressing that Ethiopia contributes about 86…
AllAfrica · Egypt
Egyptian Partners Rate Benue Oil Mill 75 Percent Ready
[Daily Trust] The Egyptian technical partner, Al Wadi Al Akhdar Oil Mills, Asher, Cairo rated the Taraku Mills in Benue State 75 percent ready for full-scale production following an assessment by its engineers.
AllAfrica · Egypt
Egypt's Abay Stance Violates AU Principles, Says Professor Yacob Arsano
[ENA] Addis Ababa -- Egypt's stance on Abay (Nile) River violates fundamental African Union principles on consultation, cooperation and equitable utilization of transboundary water resources, Political Science and…
The Guardian Africa
UK urged to help free British-Egyptian ‘arrested in Cairo over sister’s activism’
Lawyers claim Eman el-Shazly, from Birmingham, was detained in effort to silence her sister, a critic of Sisi regime The UK Foreign Office has been asked to intervene to secure the release of a British-Egyptian woman…
AllAfrica · Egypt
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Two Ethiopian peacekeepers serving with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) were killed and three others injured when an armed group ambushed a joint UN patrol in Jonglei…
AllAfrica · Egypt
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Egypt's Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty held talks with his Djiboutian counterpart Abdoulkader Houssein Omar on security and political developments in the Horn of Africa, marking his…