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Wednesday, 18 September 2019

Few topics keep Egypt’s talking heads occupied on a rather bland night

Surprise, folks: It was another rather uneventful on the country’s airwaves. The talking heads were occupied with the Baltim natural gas field going online,recent regulatory amendments, and the latest meeting of top government officials.

Eni’s Baltim goes online: Egypt’s Baltim South West natural gas field at a rate of 100 mcf/d, Al Hayah Al Youm’s Khaled Abu Bakr noted (watch, runtime: 3:14). We have the full story in this morning’s Speed Round.

El Sisi looks at FY2019-2020 economic indicators: President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly, CBE Governor Tarek Amer, and Finance Minister Mohamed Maait sat down yesterday to review macroeconomic and fiscal indicators so far into the fiscal year, reports Al Hayah Al Youm’s Khaled Abu Bakr (watch, runtime: 2:21).

FRA amends listing regs to ensure women representation: The boards of listed companies will now be required to have a woman member, according to one of two recent Financial Regulatory Authority decisions cited by Yahduth Fi Misr’s Sherif Amer (watch, runtime: 0:32).

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