The central bank says it repaid USD 500 mn in bonds owed to the Saudi Fund for Development, sources told Al Mal. The funds arrived at the central bank in 2012 and the amount was repaid at end of last week with 5% interest, sources say. Egypt owes nothing to Qatar, government sources tell Al Borsa. Egypt has repaid the statelet in full, with the last payment having been USD 1 bn returned in July 2016. Qatar had made USD deposits at the CBE worth USD 7-8 bn between 2011 and 2013, when the nation’s Islamist interregnum ended.

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