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In today\u2019s episode:<\/strong> Ezz plans westward expansion. EBRD backs Benban plant. Advancing energy hub play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ezz Steel plans a seven hundred and eighty million dollar expansion into Algeria to bypass the US tariffs. 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