Top Headlines

• Hosni Mubarak: Egypt’s toppled dictator freed after six years in custody
• Three army officers, seven soldiers killed in militant hideout raid in Central Sinai
• Four Egyptian soldiers killed by an explosion in Al-Arish
• A man was killed and three others were injured Friday when an explosive device detonated in Cairo’s Maadi
• Egypt to double metro ticket price to EGP
• Egypt prosecution orders detention of suspect who allegedly raped 20-month-old child‪
• Divisions widen between Muslim Brotherhood factions after policy reassessment initiative
• Egyptian airline’s first all-female flight crews take to skies

Egypt’s Mubarak has been freed. Photo via BBC

Main Headlines 

Monday

• Saudi Arabia pardons 30,000 Egyptian visa violators
• Sisi says will discuss Palestinian issue with Trump in April
• Three Egyptian police officers are detained on suspicion of torturing suspect to death
• World Bank disburses another $1 Billion to Egypt
• Missile falls on Central Sinai killing three, injuring two

 Tuesday

• Egypt to comply with US ban on laptops in cabins starting Friday
• Divisions widen between Muslim Brotherhood factions after policy reassessment initiative
• Finance minister: Egypt’s subsidy bill in 2017/18 rises to EGP 385 billion
• Sisi stresses enhancing cooperation in meeting with a French delegation in Cairo
• Egypt approves price hike for multiple entry visas, maintains old price for single entry

Wednesday

• Sisi meets Lebanon premier Saad Hariri in Cairo
• Russia’s top oil producer Rosneft to provide Egypt with 10 shipments of liquefied natural gas this year
• Three European development banks, EU launch $151 million green economy facility in Egypt
• School meals suspended after hundreds more students treated for food poisoning in Egypt
• Egyptian twins go on trial in Saudi capital Riyadh over planned suicide attack on mosque
• 10 detained Ultras Ahlawy members enter day 8 of hunger strike against prison maltreatment
• New discovery: Intact tomb is uncovered in Aswan

 Thursday

• Three army officers, seven soldiers killed in militant hideout raid in Central Sinai
• Egypt to double metro ticket price to EGP 2
• A police officer and a conscript were killed in North Sinai in a shootout with militants
• Six Egyptian policemen are sentenced to prison for torturing a man to death in a police station in late 2012
• ‪Pentagon: Egypt‪, US defense leaders affirm commitment to advancing partnership
• Beirut requests Cairo’s help in training the Lebanese army
• Sudan’s Al-Bahsir reaffirms brotherly relations in letter to Egypt’s Sisi

Friday

• Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has been freed from detention six years after being overthrown
• Egyptian court orders continued investigation of Mubarak in “Ahram gifts” case
• A man was killed and three others were injured Friday when an explosive device detonated in Cairo’s Maadi
• Essam Khalil re-elected as head of Free Egyptians despite party fissures despite party fissures
• Youm7’s attacks against German DW are “vulgar”: ambassador

Saturday

• Four Egyptian soldiers killed by an explosion in Al-Arish
• Brazil’s under-fire meat industry received a major boost as China, Chile and Egypt began lifting restrictions on import
• Ex-Press Syndicate head is handed one-year suspended prison sentence
• Metro ticket price increase to EGP 2 is implemented on Friday
• Uber is ordered to a take down billboards in Egypt “violating traditions”

Sunday

• Egypt convicts 56 over migrant boat sinking that killed 200
• Leading figure of ‘Sinai Province’ is killed by second field army
• Egypt prosecution orders detention of suspect who allegedly raped 20-month-old child
• Calls for release of young Egyptian prisoner El-Khatib after he was diagnosed with a rare disease
• Suez Canal records 3-year low in February
• BP makes third gas discovery in Egypt’s North Damietta Concession

Good reports

• An internal review of the Muslim Brotherhood: Reform, militancy, or politics? Mohamed Hamama
• Only one kind of trader is doing well as Egyptian pound weakens. Ahmed Feteha
• US$50 million smuggled Egyptian artifacts were shipped to US in 2016: US Census Bureau. Mada Masr
• Egypt’s last Jews aim to keep heritage alive. Emmanuel Parisse

Good read

• Why Europe is floating Egypt’s Navy Egypt’s navy. Mohamed Soliman
• Egypt is no longer the lodestar for the Arab World. But it still matters. Samuel Tadros
• The IMF as knee surgeon on a cancerous-patient. Amr Adly
• Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s ex-president, is set free. But his opponents remain in prison. The Economist
• Why Egyptians lost interest in Mubarak’s case. Muhammed Magdy

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Plus

• Egyptian airline’s first all female flight crews takes to skies
• Egypt’s military ranked 12th most powerful worldwide: Global Firepower Index

Sport

• Egypt Achieves Two Medals at the Special Olympics World Winter Games 2017