Main Headlines

Monday

• Al-Sisi becomes first candidate to submit his official documents for presidential elections
• Student killed, two reporters injured by gunfire at Cairo University clashes
• Egypt’s interim president calls for “public dialogue”on terrorism draft laws
• Egyptian court has labeled Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis a terrorist organization
• Egypt’s Journalists Syndicate head calls for a freeze in field coverage
• German airline cancels this month flights to Egypt’s Sharm El-Sheik

Tuesday

• Bomb wounds two policemen in Cairo
• Court bans Brotherhood from running for presidency or parliament
• Egypt to raise electricity prices before election
• Egypt to hold annual talks with IMF after presidential elections
• Two American delegations in Egypt to discuss ‘security issues’
• Foreign Ministry summons Iranian diplomat over violations
• Russian space agency to launch new Egyptian satellite

Wednesday

• ‎Egyptian court jails 119 supporters of ex-president Morsi‎ ‎‪
• Prosecution appeals release of Wasat party leader
• Fugitive ex-minister Ghali has “international immunity”: Egyptian Interpol
• Egypt’s government to adopt new economic stimulus package
• Liberal Constitution party endorsesmilitary man’s rival Sabahi for Egypt presidency
• Salafi preacher Abu-Ismail sentenced to 7 years
• Egypt’s political movements, parties campaign to revoke protest law
• Policeman injured in north Sinai bombing

Thursday

• Report highlights state failure to deal with virus against women
• New Egyptian satellite launched into orbit over Kazakhstan
• Canada FM is concerned about Egypt’s Brotherhood
• Egyptian journalists protest being targeted by violence
• Egyptian army kills suspected militants in North Sinai
• Egyptian government pulls filmstarring Arab ‘sex symbol’, awaits review by censors

Friday

• Sabahi gathers required recommendation forms to run for Egypt’s presidency
• No casualties in this week’s Friday protests
• Bomb kills police officer in Giza’s Lebanon Square
• FJP to boycottpresidential elections
• Cairo court rejects lawsuit trying to ban Israeli activities in Egypt
• Egypt foils smuggling of Jewish artifacts
• Christians commemorate Jesus’s crucifixion on ‪Good Friday
• Egypt demolishes 120,000 illegal buildings on green land

 Saturday

• Sabbahi hands in candidacy papers for presidential race
• Presidential hopeful El-Sisi visits Coptic Pope for Easter
• Lawyer Mortada Mansour quits presidency after ‘holy’ sign
• New militant groupclaims responsibility for Friday blast in Cairo
• Egypt sentences Muslim Brotherhood leader El-Beltagy to one year in prison for insulting the judiciary
• Head of Egypt’s censorship board resigns in protest against the government to pull a controversial movie from cinema
• One dead, and 4 injured in sectarian clashes in Egypt’s Qalyoubia

 Sunday

• Elections commission announces official presidential candidates
• Two policemen killed on Suez road
• FM spokesman: Ambassador will not return to Qatar, unless Doha changes stance on Egypt
• Rafah crossing ‪opens for two days for Palestinian pilgrims
• Comedian Bassem Youssef off air ahead of elections
• 26,000 tourists arrives in Egypt on Easter Sunday despite Euro travel alerts
• Influential Egyptian– born cleric Qaradawi says he will be buried in Qatari soil

 Good Reports

• Egypt’s gay community fears government crackdown. Patrick Kingsley
• Terrorism expands from Sinai to Cairo. Al-Monitor
• Investment n Egypt: An odd oasis. The Economist

Good Read

• Sisi, Sabahi, and the future of Egypt’s economy. Daniel Stoker
• Manifest destiny. Omar Robert Hamilton
• Coal cannot solve Egypt’s energy crisis. Allison McManus
• Dismantling the Myth of the candidate of necessity . Amr Hamzawy
• System analysis. Gamal Essam El-Din
• Does General Sisi have a plan for Egypt’s economy? Mohamed El-Dahshan

Plus

• Letter to High Representative Ashton concerning Egypt. Marietji Schaake

Photo Gallery

• Egypt in pictures: Nile in the City
• Egyptian journalists protest against violence ‪
• Coptic Easter in Egypt

Finally, here are Jayson Casper’s prayers for Egypt