It is a very quiet morning for Egypt in the international press, setting aside one entirely odd story in the Guardian headlined It was hell: Spanish cocaine raid adds to shipboard misery for 4,000 cows.

Only five Egyptian firms made it into Forbes’ 2020 top 100 Middle East companies in a list dominated by Emirati, Saudi and Qatari firms. CIB was the highest-ranking Egyptian company coming in at #28. Towards the bottom of the list were Eastern Company (#79), Talaat Moustafa Group (#85), Elsewedy Electric (#87) and Telecom Egypt (#91).

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