CAIRO - Egypt's prime minister was due in Qatar on Tuesday for talks with his country's biggest Gulf Arab financial backer as Cairo is negotiating for an IMF loan to hep ease a deepening economic crisis.
Hisham Kandil was to fly to Doha after attending the swearing in of Kenya's new president in Nairobi, his office said. He is due to hold a joint news conference with Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani on Wednesday.
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