Top Headlines

• Pope to visit Egypt next month
• President Sisi to meet Trump in Washington in early April
• Reuters: Russia appears to deploy forces in Egypt, eyes on Libya role
• Russia denies deploying airbase in Egypt
• Mubarak returns to his home in Heliopolis
• More than 2,200 kids may have been food poisoned in south of Egypt
• Parliament to discuss Red Sea’s Tiran and Sanafir deal despite court ruling voiding the agreement

 Main Headlines

Monday

• Egypt’s Sisi pardons 203 prisoners in protest-related cases
• Citizens line up across governorates to get their share of subsidized bread
• Egypt sends condolences to Ethiopia for victims in landslide in Addis Ababa
• Second half of statue found in Cairo’s Matariya to be lifted from the ground
• Student forcibly disappeared for 81 days was questioned and accused of belonging to a banned group

Tuesday 

• Russia denies deploying airbase in Egypt
• Parliament to discuss Red Sea’s Tiran and Sanafir deal despite court ruling voiding the agreement
• Mubarak returns to his home in Heliopolis
• Hundreds of students have been hospitalized with suspected poisoning in Sohag
• CAF chief Issa Hayatou to face anti-monopoly charges in Egypt
• US dollar exceeds LE18 during Tuesday transactions
• Egypt is hopeful for resumption of Libyan talks in Cairo despite fears of civil war

 Wednesday

• Egyptian-German mission to excavate 2 new sites near Ramses II statue discovery in the Matariya’s area
• ‘Royal convoy’ will transport huge statue to the Egyptian museum
• Egypt raises customs dollar as greenback strengthens against Egyptian pound
• Thomas Cook, Thomson sell Sharm el-Sheikh fall holidays despite British travel ban
• Former Egyptian governor is arrested for bribery
• Minya lawyers strike after 9 sentenced to prison for defaming the judiciary
• Egypt ranks third on Global Hunger Index
• Electricity ministry plans new price increases

 Thursday 

• Egypt Pharaoh statue ‘not Ramses II, but different ruler
• HRW: Egyptian police may have staged raid to cover-up killing in Sinai
• Egypt’s ousted Mubarak files lawsuit to unfreeze EGP 61 million in assets
• Egypt establishes diplomatic mission to NATO
• Egypt’s FM: Cairo, Amman working with Palestinian Authority on two-state solution
• One dead, four injured as wartime land mine explodes in Egypt’s Suez

Friday

• Abdel-Mohsen Salama is elected as new head of journalists syndicate
• Egypt’s defence, interior ministers meet with security forces in North Sinai
• Sisi orders swift investigation into Sohag schools food poisoning case

 Saturday 

• Pope Francis to visit Egypt to meet Grand Imam, and show solidarity to persecuted Copts
• Egyptian lawyers stage one-day strike nationwide over jail sentence against colleagues
• Egypt, Al-Azhar strongly condemn Houthi attack on Yemeni mosque
• 33 Brazilian officials suspended for sales, exports of rotten meat to Egypt

Sunday 

• Egypt’s Sisi to visit Washington in the first week of April
• Egypt received two cargoes of diesel fuel from Saudi Aramco
• Egyptian army arrests 37 terror suspects in North Sinai
• Court sets April 2 to rule on lawsuit voiding Red Sea islands as Egyptian
• Egypt renews detention of Al-Jazeera’s journalist‪
• Egypt army chief of staff and UN Libya envoy discuss end to the Libyan crisis

 Good Reports

• Russia appears to deploy forces in Egypt, eyes on Libya role. Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali, and Lin Noueihed
• Back to the palace of corruption: Mubarak is free. Mohamed Hamama
• The cleric and the president: Egypt’s critical power struggle. Mai Shams El-Din
• Nile Delta’s increasing salinity and rising sea levels may make Egypt uninhabitable by 2100. Jano Charbel

Good Read

• Saudi Arabia and Egypt: Un uneasy relationship. Bernard Haykel
• Egypt’s role in the Middle East: The view from Jerusalem. Itamar Robinovich
• Once upon a time Jews lived here. Samuel Tadros

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Interview

• How Egypt uses a colonial-era law to crush protests. POMED

 Plus

• Sperm donation rom-com is a success in Egypt in Egypt
• Cairo University’s Anti-Sexual Harassment Unit dabble in arts and sports
• Rare shark whale B is spotted in Marsa Alam

Photo Gallery

• Massive pharaonic statue lifted is lifted in Cairo’s Matariya
• Transferring the ‪Matariya colossus to the Egyptian Museum

Poll

• Baseera: 63% of Egyptians support proposed bill to document verbal divorce