A customer exchanges US dollars to Egyptian pounds in a foreign exchange office in central Cairo, Egypt, November 3, 2016 (Reuters / Mohamed Abd El Ghany)
CAIRO: Remittances from expatriate Egyptians rose by 24.4 percent year-on-year in September to $1.166 billion, the central bank said on Thursday.
Remittances have increased since Egypt floated its pound currency in November.
(Reporting by Arwa Gaballa and Ehab Farouk; editing by John Stonestreet)
