KUDOS- Tennis champion Mayar Sherif has become the first Egyptian to qualify for the Australian Open’s main draw, after becoming the first Egyptian player to make it to the main draw in the French Open at Roland Garros last September.

Egypt’s first woman mixed martial arts fighter Aya Saeed is encouraging other women to join the sport, Menna Farouk writes for Al Monitor.

The National Bank of Egypt (NBE) was rated as the country’s top bank for syndicated loans in 2020 in Bloomberg’s global syndicated loans league table, having arranged EGP 318 bn-worth of syndicated loans, according to a statement (pdf). The state-owned bank also topped the ranking in Africa and the Middle East.

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