Top Headlines

• Egypt-IMF reach staff-level agreement on a Three-year US$12 Bln  fund facility 
• After IMF deal, Egypt’s Sisi says will not hesitate on tough reforms
• Egypt inflation rate at 14.8% in July
• Egypt sets jail as punishment for black market forex trading

Main Headlines

Monday

• Egypt announces sharp rises in electricity pricesas it aims to phase out subsidies
• Egypt has shut down half of its licensed currency exchange bureaus for violations
• Egyptian FM spokesperson says article published in The Economist is “reductionist and biased”
• Italian MP says Egypt’s government is ‘not responsible’ for Regeni’s murder
• Amendment of Egypt’s press law is indefinitely postponed by parliament
• Coptic sectarian violence victims flee Minya and demand justice in front of Parliament

Tuesday

• Sudan floods will increase Nile water level in Lake Nasr
• Record Nile flood waters to be stored for “lean years”
• President Sisi appoints Hisham Badawy as Egypt’s new top auditor
• Egypt sees 50 percent decrease in tourists in the first half of 2016
• Egyptian MPs slam new British guidance on granting Brotherhood members political asylum
• Egyptian court orders investigation into alleged torture of Muslim Brotherhood’s leader
• Egyptian man shot dead in North Sinai in North Sinai

 Wednesday

• Egypt’s black market dollar traders face up to 10 years in jail as laws are tightened
• Turkish airlines to resume flights to Sharm el-Sheikh in September
• Firts plane arrives from Warsaw in Sharm El-Sheikh as Poland lift travel ban
• New police law amendment bans Egyptian cops from speaking to media without permits
• Egypt’s inflation rate at 14.8% in July: CAPMAS
• Egypt approves 5-year extension of military protection for public facilities

Thursday

• Egypt-IMF reach staff-level agreement on a three-year US$12 Billion fund facility
• New Egyptian church building law to provide permit faster
• Investors terminate renewable energy projects following dispute over feed-in tariff
• Journalist Yosri Fouda continues his show on Deutsche Welle amid attacks
• Egyptian Copts suffer ongoing sectarian tensions: US government report

Friday

• Economists agree reforms IMF loan will entail are inevitable
• 23 Egyptians return to Cairo after kidnap in Libya
• Egyptian loses to Israeli in Olympic judo bought, refuses to shake hands
• International Judo Federation to ‘review’ Egyptian fighter’s actions
• Three suspects arrested over property-related violence in Minya
• Egypt allocates additional land to Toshka project

Saturday

• After IMF deal, Egypt’s Sisi says will not hesitate on tough reforms
• Cairo-based rights organization cancels youth summer program amid state crackdown
• Egypt’s FM says Turkish counterpart is putting “unacceptable conditions” on rapprochement
• Egyptian activists Mahinour El-Masry, Youssef Shabaan has been released from prison after serving their sentences
• Egypt abstains from voting on regional protection force in South Sudan
• Decision on legal challenge to court’s composition in Tiran and Sanafir island is adjourned to August 27

Sunday

• Political groups and figures send letter to Sisi rejecting IMF loan
• Egypt’s largest private bank CIB to tighten limits on card usage abroad
• Yemeni PM in Cairo for talks on Yemen’s crisis with top Egyptian officials
• Egypt reconsiders grain mega project amid scandal investigation
• HRW urges Egypt’s parliament to conduct impartial investigation into Rabea deaths

Good Reports

• Egypt needs $5-6 billion in bilateral financing to seal IMF deal: Mission chief Lin Noueihed
• ISIS is digging up Nazi land mines in Egypt. Peter Schwartzstein
• The complete guide to Egypt’s 20 most promising Hend ElBehary
• The Rabea sit-in dispersal: Whom the state is blaming three years on. Mai Shams El-Din
• The stories behind Egypt’s Olympic Champions. Mai Shams El-Din
• Nationalism and generosity fuel the defense of Tiran and Sanafir. Beesan Kassab
• Why do sectarian tensions run high in Minya? Heba Afify
• Clash: An awkward movie that suits an awkward situation. Andeel

Good Read

• ISIS brings Egypt and Israel even closer. Yossi Mekelberg
• Fractured lands: How the Arab world came apart.  Scott Anderson

 From Twitter

Statement

• IMF mission chief statement on Egypt-IMF agreement

 Interview

• Beginning of the end for ‪Sinai’s militant groups: Expert and ex-jihadist Nageh Ibrahim.‪ Ahmed Eleiba
• The Turkish designer of Rabea symbol. Mohamed Hamama

Plus

• Controversy erupts over Khaled Abol Naga and Basma’s participation in an American TV drama “Tyrant”
• Cairo is the fastest growing city in MENA with 30,000 drivers, says Uber

Photo Gallery

• How Sara Samir became the first Egyptian woman to win an Olympic medal

Finally, here are Jayson Casper’s prayers for Egypt