Main Headlines

Monday

• French defense minister to meet Egypt’s El-Sisi in Cairo
• Egypt and UK military officials meet for regional talks
• Egypt sentences Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie to life in jail
• Egyptian activists Alaa Abdel Fattah, Noubi, Metwali are released on bail
• Despite the release of Alaa Abdel Fattah, Egypt hunger strike campaign continues
• Preparations for ‪Egypt’s parliamentary elections to go ahead after Al-Adha feast
• Court upholds 3 year jail sentence for Egyptian tycoon Nassef Sawiris
• Egypt’s interior minister does not mind amending protest law

Tuesday

• Six policemen were killed in Egypt’s Sinai
• Security forces killed five suspected militants in Egypt’s Sinai
• Egyptians are among hundreds drowned off the Malta’s coast
• Certificates for Suez Canal project are sold out
• Coptic Christians clash with police in Egypt
• A planned Suez Canal Corridor project to cost $220 billion over 15 years
• April 6 founder Ahmed Maher joins hunger strike joins hunger strike
• Egypt denies claims oldest pyramid had been damaged during restoration
• Egypt’s police detains four “terrorist cells”
• The health of hunger striker Mohamed Sultan is deteriorating: Egyptian activist group
• Egyptian businesses to offer projects to global partners at global summit

 Wednesday

• ‪Egypt summons all EU ambassadors over “negative” statement ‪
• Russia, Egypt seal preliminary arm deal worth $3.5 billion
• ‪Egypt’s controversial protest law to be amended within days
• Egypt’s prosecutor-general releases 116 university students‪
• Egypt blames organized criminal gangs after migrant shipwreck deaths
• Egyptian citizen killed near Tripoli
• Six metro lines will cover all Cairo by 2020
• Egypt to buy 65 percent of oil product imports from UAE

Thursday

• Egypt’s El-Sisi calls for active participation in upcoming parliamentary elections
• Egypt’s interior ministry has denied news report that it contracted security firm for online monitoring
• 34 Morsi supporters given 17 years in jail for violating protest law
• Brotherhood leaders stress departure from Qatar was coordinated
• Israel warns its citizens from travelling to Sinai next week
• Russia’s Gazprom to supply Egypt with liquefied natural gas shipment
• 16 Al-Azhar University students sentenced to 4 years in prison without hearing their defense

 Friday

• Egyptian TV presenter Reem Maged joins the hunger strike campaign
• Another decapitated body found in North Sinai
• Giza bomb squad diffuses 2 homemade bombs at checkpoint
• More senior figures resign from Free Egyptians Party
• Two civilians injured in two separate attacks in North Sinai
• Total power outage hits Egypt’s Hurghada
• Interior Minister suspends 3 officers for negligence after Mahalla jail break

Saturday

• Egypt’s el-Sisi: Brotherhood backers can return to politics if they renounce violence –
• Egyptian activist ‪Alaa Abdel Fattah is nominated for European Parliament award
• Journalist Hosseiny Sobhy detained in Egypt for 7 months is released on bail
• Detained hunger-striker Sultan denied medical care: Amnesty
• Egypt’s education minister calls for politics to be kept out of the new school term
• Nasserist Popular Current to become a political party

Sunday

• Egyptian Military aircraft crash kills six crew
• Blast near foreign ministry in Cairo
• Pentagon: U.S. to deliver 10 Apaches to Egypt
• El-Sisi flies to New York to attend UN General Assembly
• Gaza ceasefire indirect talks to resume in Egypt ‪
• Court suspends activist Mahienour al-Massry’s sentence, and orders her release
• Police to be deployed at Al-Azhar campus in Cairo
• Egyptian journalists start a new round of temporary hunger strike against protest law

 Best Reports

• Egypt: The first 100 days of Sisi. BBC News
• Egypt in the eyes of international rating agencies
• Wary of Salafists, Egypt expands control over mosques. Ayah Aman
• Saqqara pyramid is no longer a UNESCO world heritage site

Good Read

• Revisiting Rabaa. Steven Cook
• 100 days of Sisi: Egypt Economic Recovery Kicks Off but Human Rights Trampled. Nigel Wilson
• Hunger striking: A legal approach . Mai El- Sadany
• Despite difficult challenges, Egypt has a considerable economic upside. Mohamed El-Erian
• Exit Qatar: What’s next for Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood? Zeinab El-Gundy

Poll

• Egyptians largely satisfied with Sisi’s political, but not economic decisions

Interview

• A transcript of AP interview with Egypt’s El-Sisi

Plus

• Egyptian band Cairokee has been nominated for MTV European Music Awards
• Egyptian scuba diver is crowned Guinness World Record holder for deep sea plunge
• Running against the current on Cairo’s hectic street
• We will always have Cairo. Arabist