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The managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, is due in Cairo next week to discuss details of the fourth review of the global lenders loan programme with senior Egyptian officials. Local news outlets reported that Georgievas visit will precede another by an IMF delegation expected to review Egypts economic progress. The reports did not elaborate further on the dates of the visits. The much-awaited review had been previously postponed twice until Egypt could fulfil the deal terms set by the IMF amid the toughest economic crisis the country has witnesse