Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are swooping in to buy shares in national companies, while also demanding economic reform and greater transparency

Statistics bureau shows annual inflation at 21.9% last month, up from 19.2% in November, with fruits and dairy products seeing highest spikes among food items

Hours before announcement of agreement, central bank hikes key interest rates by 2%, implements more flexible exchange rate system, as Cairo commits to initiate reforms

Fallout from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, high oil prices, drop in tourists contribute to Egyptian pound's falling value

Central bank buying 1 dollar for 19 pounds, in a country where almost one-third of the population lives below the official poverty line

Cairo prefers to underscore the newly expanded waterway's present-day contributions to the country - $5.9 billion in annual revenue - rather than its history of colonialism and war

2015 expansion of the canal first opened in 1869 has cut transit time from 22 hours to 11 and opened the vital waterway to the largest container ships in the world