Top Headlines
- Italy demands answers as anger mounts over the Cambridge University student’s torture and murder in Cairo. Monday
- Egyptian doctors revolt against police abuses. Friday
- Sisi announces transfer of legislative powers in speech to Parliament. Saturday
- Egypt opens Rafah border for the first time in 2016. Sunday
- Egyptian court overturns protester death verdict. Sunday
Main Headlines
Monday
- Italy demands answers as anger mounts over the Cambridge University student’s torture and murder in Cairo
- Egyptian police shot dead four suspected Islamist militants inside a house a few miles from central Cairo
- Women’s council backs woman allegedly assaulted by police in metro
- 26 Muslim Brotherhood supporters referred to military trial over 2015 rampage
- Sisi launches 34 development projects worth LE16 billion
- Giant red carpet for Egypt leader’s motorcade sparks uproar
- Army responds to president’s “red carpet” reception saga
Tuesday
- Egypt’s foreign minister visits Washington
- Buses to transport doctors across Egypt to Cairo for critical assembly on Friday
- President-appointed MP quits, decrying marginalization
- Egyptian police officer handed 8 years in Ismailia’s torture case
- Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan discuss costs of studies on the effects of the Ethiopian dam
Wednesday
- 9 police officers have been summoned over alleged physical assault at Mataryia hospital
- Officer investigating the murder of Giulio Regeni has a prior conviction of torturing a man to death
- Egypt’s Shukri and John Kerry discuss security challenges and cooperation
- Sisi stresses support toward national accord government in Libya
- Three conscripts were injured in an IED blast in Sinai
- Detention of 6 April movement members is extended pending investigations
Thursday
- General Motors to resume operations in Egypt
- Sisi meets with leaders of major American Jewish organizations
- Egypt’s stock market sharply dropped Thursday by 4.1 percent
- Egyptian military forces destroyed another tunnel connecting Northern Sinai with the Gaza strip
Friday
- Doctors mobilize against police violations
- Egypt ignored Italian ambassador request to meet interior minister
- Italy mourns young academic Giulio Regeni murdered in Cairo
- Egypt’s Sisi orders opening of Gaza border of the Rafah border crossing for the first time in 2016
- Int’l human rights organizations condemn travel bans on human rights defenders
- Prosecutors investigating disappearance of 157 artifacts
- Sisi approves mutual visa exemption between Egypt and Colombia
Saturday
- Sisi announces transfer of legislative powers in speech to Parliament to the House of Representatives
- Prosecution: Autopsy report on dead Italian student cannot be made public
- One prisoner was killed, 17 others were injured in an attempted prison break
- Hamas is open to any initiative to open Rafah border crossing with Egypt
- After more than 600 days in pretrial detention, Aya Hegazy’s trial is postponed for the fourth time
- Supply Ministry purchases 60,000 tons of wheat from Romania
Sunday
- Egypt’s highest court overturns policeman’s jail sentence for killing activist that was captured in iconic images
- Egypt cancels scheduled meeting with Israel’s Netanyahu
- Improvised bomb kills army officer, soldier in North Sinai
- President Sisi to keep Gaza border open for extra day
- Egypt-Sudan-Ethiopia summit meeting to be held in Sharm El-Sheikh
Good reports
- Death of Student, Giulio Regeni highlights perils for Egyptians too. Kareem Fahim, Nour Youssef and Delan Walsh
- Italian student showed signs of electrocution – Egypt forensic source. Reuters
- Five years on, efforts to recover Mubarak’s money are going no where. Heba Afify
- A chilling similarity between bombs in Somalia and Egypt. The Economist
- Couple who spent their wedding money on street children end up in an Egyptian prison. Aya Nader
- Harried by police, Egypt’s Brotherhood torn by divisions. Samer al-Atrush
Good Read
- Why Cairo should devalue the Egyptian pound. Wael Nawara
- The regimen of Sisi’s non-regime. H. A Hellyer ( From February 3)
- Talk to me about corruption in Egypt in time of Mubarak. Zeinobia
- Turkey-Egypt rapprochement is unlikely. Abdullah Bozkurt
Also you may find my piece on Sisi’s red carpet saga worth reading
From Twitter
Plus
- Female genital mutilation to end by 2030: Health Ministry
- The Egyptian donkey who jumped her way to international acclaim
- Environment Ministry announces initiative to rescue illegally kept wild animals
Nervana 
Reblogged this on Mark Geoffrey Kirshner and commented:
5-Stars Dr Nervana Mahmoud’s weekly round up an Eyes-Open Egyptian patriot never disappoints or pulls punches. This week she & Eric Trager carefully broke disheartening news about a death under torture in custody that only her credibility made me break my silence as an outsider. Dr Mahmoud calls for accountability , I called for a Lawyers Strike to reign in the leftover thugs from Mubarak’s regime. Egypt is a Country of Laws and as such legal professional must insist on true adherence to those legal principles without any justification for expediency. Every government is responsible for calling it’s errant agents to account with full transparency and criminal accountability. Failure to do so amounts to complicity. I’ve long supported President Sisi and await his response to an assault on Egypt as much as on one Italian student. Egypt’s great strides in democracy and security are negated by any failure to transparently address that crime – and to punish it with an independent judicial proceeding
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