An IMF delegation visited Cairo in mid-January after Egypt’s interim government requested a $3.2 billion loan to help prop up ailing state finances. The talks come seven months after the ruling military council, which has effectively been in power since the February 2011 ousting of president Hosni Mubarak, rejected an offer of similar IMF support last June. But public finances, and the broader Egyptian economy, have since weakened sharply as political and social unrest continues to rumble through the Middle East’s most populous nation.
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