By: Ahmed Allam & Islam Fadl
Cairo – Mubasher: Foreign holdings of Egypt’s public debt instruments exceeded $20 billion at the end of August, the country’s minister of finance Mohamed Maait revealed.
Currently, the North African nation attracts many foreign investors due to the country's successful economic reform programme, Maait told reporters on the sidelines of Euromoney conference on Monday.
At the end of May, total foreign holdings of Egypt’s debt instruments stood at $17 billion, board member of the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) Fakhry El Fekki previously told Mubasher.