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Tuesday, 11 June 2019

The EGP run, AFCON, Arab tourism occupy Egypt’s talking heads

The news that the EGP is currently the world’s second-best performing currency against the greenback this year got some airtime on Al Hayah Al Youm (watch, runtime: 1:21). The EGP has gained some 7% against the USD so far in 2019. We have a deeper look at the story in this morning’s Speed Round, below.

Lobna Assal also noted on Al Hayah Al Youm thatFitch Group’s Fitch Learning has announced it’s launching a first-of-its-kind international academy in Egypt to train credit and risk financial professionals.

AFCON preparations: Masaa DMC’s Eman El Hosary highlighted President Abdel Fattah El Sisi’s meeting with senior government officials to discuss preparations for the African Cup of Nations which will kick off on 21 June. El Sisi directed his administration to make available all necessary resources to ensure the tournament is a success (watch, runtime: 1:11).

We’ve sorely missed El Hekaya’s Amr Adib since the Ramadan talk show hiatus began five weeks ago: El Adib showed some love to Arab tourists, lauding a recent statistic from the interweb that suggests Egypt was the most popular Eid destination for Emiratis (watch, runtime: 1:39).

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