Top headlines

• Egypt’s Sisi orders security reshuffle after attacks
• Egypt’s Sisi appoints new chief-of-staff of the Armed Forces
• Pentagon officials announced a $64 million contract New mobile surveillance system for Egypt’s
• France’s Macron stresses security, not rights, with Egyptian leader Sisi 
• Copts call for action over church closures in southern Egypt
• MP drafts homophobic law to jail LGBT people or ‘promoters’ in Egypt

Photo via Mada Maar

Monday 

• Police officer is still missing after El-Wahat El-Baheria clashes
• Chief of Staff of Armed Forces heads to the United States
• Pentagon officials announced a $64 million contract New mobile surveillance system for Egypt’s border security
• Ahmed Mousa still on TV despite Wahat allegedly fabricated video

Tuesday

• Frane’s Macron stresses security, not rights, with Egyptian leader Sisi
• Egypt’s Second Field Army killed six high-risk militants in a crackdown on their hideout in North Sinai
• 12 Hassm members arrested possessing weapons in Fayoum
• Saudi Arabia unveils massive $500 billion plan to develop border region with Jordan and Egypt
• Two $87 million loans granted for construction of world’s largest solar power plant in Upper Egypt’s Benban village

 Wednesday

• Egypt, France sign 16 agreements during Sisi’s visit to Paris
• MP drafts homophobic law to jail LGBT people or ‘promoters’ in Egypt
• Alexandria court acquits 11 defendants of illegal protest against Red Sea islands deal
• Cabinet approves comprehensive health insurance bill
• More smart buses to be launched in Cairo for renewal of public transportation

 Thursday

• IMF starts second review of Egypt’s economic reform programme
• New warship acquisition from South Korea arrives at Egypt ‘s naval base
• Academy of Arabic Language proposes law that could jail journalists for using colloquial Arabic

 Friday

• Egyptian security kills 13 ‘high-risk terrorists’ on Western Desert’s Wahat road
• Germany and Russia issue travel warnings to some parts in Egypt
• French Ambassador to Cairo: France made a clear decision to be a strategic partner of Egypt
• Suez says temporarily moves Catalonia office to Madrid

Saturday

• Egypt’s Sisi names armed forces chief of staff
• Egypt’s interior minister changes three top chiefs at National Security Agency
• Egypt announces reshuffle in top security ranks
• Egypt army arrests three extremists, seizes explosive material in Central Sinai
• Egypt is about to launch universal health coverage

Sunday

• Media council to announce possible ban on terrorism media reports
• Copts call for action over church closures in southern Egypt
• An Egyptian court orders ban on ‘anti-Islam’ broadcast by researcher Islam Behairy
• Political solution in Yemen is not negotiable, says Egypt’s FM
• Egypt Air restarts flights to Tokyo, ending four-year suspension

Good Reports

• Egypt replaces defence and security chiefs and names Libya as the gravest threat to its stability. Jacob Wirtschafter
• Mohamed Farid Hegazy: The Armed Forces’s Chief of Staff. Mada Masr
• Islamic State sees dollar signs in Egypt. Al-Monitor
• ‘We are being hunted’: Why LGBTQ Egyptians are living in fear. Bel Trew

Good Read

• Giza ambush exposes security weakness in Egypt’s hinterland. Oded Berkowitz
• Renewing the American Egyptian alliance.Samuel Tadros and Eric Brown

Interview

• “We have imprisoned no political activists”, Egypt’s Sisi tells France 24

From Twitter

Info-graph 

• French-Egyptian relations since 2015 in numbers

Plus

• Swiss tourists pay 800 euros to fly abused donkey in Egypt to Switzerland
• Egypt’s Sphinx International Airport to start receiving flights in summer 2018

Finally here are Jayson Casper’s prayers for Egypt