Your top 5 pieces of business and economic news in April:

  • Higher education outfit Taaleem debuted on the EGX, ending the country’s IPO drought.
  • Russia agreed to resume direct flights to Egypt’s Red Sea resort towns.
  • Egypt will embark on a three-year structural reform program to support private sector-led economic growth.
  • Back-to-back railway accidents put Egypt’s ailing railway infrastructure under the spotlight.
  • Egypt’s non-oil private sector contracted again in March, but businesses are the most optimistic they’ve been in a while.
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