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Africa North
UAE's $3 bln aid for Egypt "will take time"
2013-05-27
The $3 billion in aid that the United Arab Emirates pledged for Egypt in 2011 will "take time" to be transferred, the UAE Finance Minister and Dubai Deputy Ruler said on Friday.
"How much time?"
"A lot. I dunno. How much time you got?"
"We are going in the right way but it will take time. I cannot tell you exactly when but they (the funds) are on the way," Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid al-Maktoum told Reuters.
Ask the Swiss, they should know...
An Egyptian source familiar with the matter told Reuters in February that the money had not been transferred mainly due to the political instability in post-revolution Egypt.
Posted by:Steve White

#1  You run into this stuff all through the Third World; electronic money transfers travel at the speed of light, but the speed of light is a lot slower out there.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2013-05-27 16:01  

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