CAIRO: Egypt will repay $6.3 billion in foreign debt in the second half of 2018, financial newspaper al-Mal reported on Monday.

Egypt's foreign debt reached $82.9 billion at the end of December, according to central bank data released in May.

The central bank was not immediately available for comment.

Al-Mal also reported that Egypt had secured an extension on $4 billion worth of deposits by the United Arab Emirates which were due to mature in 2018. The deposits are now subject to interest rates of up to 3.5 percent, with the earliest payment tranche due in April 2019, the paper said.

Since 2013, Saudi Arabia and the UAE have given Egypt some $8 billion in aid, including deposits with the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) worth $2 billion apiece.

Egypt's foreign reserves were $44.258 billion at the end of June, having climbed steadily since the country secured a $12 billion, three-year IMF loan in 2016 as part of an effort to lure back foreign investors and revive the economy.

(Reporting by Nadine Awadalla; Editing by Catherine Evans) ((Nadine.Awadalla@thomsonreuters.com;))