The Egyptian President, Abd El Fattah El Sisi, discussed the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) loan program for Cairo with the IMF's Managing Director, Christine Lagarde.
The World Bank (WB) announced that it released $1b to Egypt as the second tranche of its $3b loan agreement signed with the Arab country in December 2015.
El Sewedy Electric is in talks with financial institutions for a loan to fund its 50MW solar power plant project in Benban as part of the feed-in tariff (FiT) program.