Top Headlines
- Egypt hires consultancy to check airport security after Russia crash. Tuesday
- Israel approves natural gas exports to Egypt. Friday
- Nine police, army generals among 11 newly appointed governors. Saturday
- Sudan, Egypt, Ethiopia say committed to reaching understandings on Nile Dam. Sunday
Main Headlines
Monday
- Libya’s eastern oil company says signs shipment deal with Egypt
- Egypt puts gag order on media about nuclear power station
- Egypt’s Wafd party says will not join ‘Support Egypt’ pro-Sisi parliamentary bloc
- Following months of denied visitations, families allowed to visit detainees in Aqrab prison
- Egypt introduces women-only buses
Tuesday
- El-Sisi says he would not stay in office against the will of Egyptians
- Egypt has hired global consultancy Control Risks to review securities at its airports
- Military court sentenced Brotherhood head Badie to 10 years in prison
- Over 70 international scholars demand release of Egyptian journalist and researcher Ismail Alexandrani
- Egypt’s Central Bank backs local products, tighten importing measures
- Interior Ministry organizes human rights competition for Egypt’s police forces
Wednesday
- Egypt struggles to pay for oil, LNG supplies amid foreign currency crisis
- Iraqi FM arrives in Cairo for emergency Arab League meeting on Turkish intervention
- Egyptian authorities are working on release of 16 fishermen in Tunisia
- Tunisian PM: Ennahda has no reservations about improving relations with Cairo
- British ambassador welcomes Egypt’s deal with international company to secure airports
- Small women protest against Egypt’s justice minister decree on summer marriage”
Thursday
- Russian Security Services identify groups potentially responsible for the Russian plane crash in Sinai
- El-Sisi meets with ministers ahead of Ethiopian Dam’s talks
- British airlines delay resumption of regular flights to Sharm el-Sheikh
- Egypt demands immediate Turkish withdrawal from Iraqi territories
- Salafist Nour Party denies boycotting 1st parliament session over woman speaker
- Germany to build two additional submarines for Egypt
Friday
- A police conscript wounded in North Sinai
- Sharqiya governor was sacked by the cabinet
- Egyptian prosecutors in Ismailia 3order re-arrest of police officer accused of torturing detainee to death
- Israel approves natural gas exports to Egypt
- Al-Azhar warns Muslims against new year fortune tellers
Saturday
- Egyptian policemen are sentenced to life in prison for torturing man to death
- Trains resume following a bomb on Cairo-Zagazig railway track
- Nine police, army generals among 11 newly appointed governors
- Sisi meets with the Iraqi rape victim of ISIS
- Interior ministry sends more medical missions to governorate prisons
- Egypt MP Okasha is barred from holding conference on independent MP bloc
- Egypt’s Student Union calls the dismal of the high education minister
- Sharqeya and Gharbeya courts sentence over 30 Brotherhood members and supporters to prison
Sunday
- Three killed and 11 injured in an explosion in Giza
- Sudan, Egypt, Ethiopia say committed to reaching understandings on Nile Dam
- Two militants were killed in Northern Sinai
- Egyptian Foreign Minister asks to take asks to take Al-Jazeera’s mike away, again
- Egypt’s Sisi appoints committee to investigate corruption claims
- Journalist is stabbed 4 times in Giza metro station
- Egypt offers tourism and housing projects to Saudi investment
- Hamas condemns apparent Egyptian killing of mentally-ill Palestinian
- Egypt ‘will not allow Tutankhamun tomb to be damaged’ in hunt for a secret chamber
Good Reports
- Egypt’s new provincial governors: Who’s who? Ahram Online
- Inside Egypt’s blacked out war with ISIS- affiliated militants
- CPJ 2015 prison census finds that China & Egypt imprison record number of Journalists
- Beans and Koshary save Egyptians from rising food prices in 2015. Mohamed Gad and Yasmine Selim
Good Read
- Egypt: The Renaissance Dam and the need to confront facts on the ground. Ahmed El-Sayed Al-Naggar
- The Return of Egypt’s military interest groups. Yezid Sayigh
- The struggle for Egypt’s tourism sector. Mustansir Barma
- Egypt: Geography as destiny. Galal Nassar
- Emerging Egypt-Russia alliance could disrupt Saudi Arabia’s plans. Zvi Bar’el
Interview
- 26-year-old female MP has big plans for South Sinai and Egypt’s new parliament. George Mikhail for Al-Monitor
- Actor Khalid Abdalla on filmmaking as activism, image of Arabs in cinema. Nourhan Tewfik for Ahram Online
From Twitter
Plus:
- Cairo’s Baron Empain palace on its way to Egypt’s tourist track
- Naukratis: ancient Egypt’s version of Hong Kong is unearthed by a British team
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