The government conducted its first international bond sale in five years in June, selling $1.5b of 10-year bonds at a yield of 6%
Egypt will return to the international bond market in the first half of 2016, the country’s finance minister said on Monday, taking advantage of its return to economic and political stability in the wake of the Arab Spring uprising of 2011.
“We will go out to the international bond market in the second half of the financial year 2015-16, God willing,” Hany Kadry Dimian told Reuters on the sidelines of a Euromoney conference. Egypt’s financial year runs from July to June. Details