The volume of foreign investments in the Egyptian treasury bonds stood at dlrs 18 billion until the end of September, the deputy finance minister said.

In a press release on Tuesday, Ahmed Kagok said an International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission in charge of following up Egypt's economic reform program is due in Cairo by the end of October.

Kagok noted that the IMF lauded Egypt's economic reform program as the best being implemented by the fund.

The IMF has approved extending a 12-billion-dollar loan in support of the Egyptian economic reform program.