Top Headlines
- Egypt to extend state of emergency for 3 months
- Former Egyptian prime minister Ahmed Shafik is no longer considering running for president in this year’s election
- Sudan recalls its ambassador from Egypt amid tensions
- Sisi attended Christmas mass at the new Nativity of Christ Cathedral in the new administrative capital
- Egypt garners 3 CAF titles, Mohamed Salah named best African play
Monday
- Two Copts are killed at Giza liquor shop
- Egypt to keep customs exchange rate at 16 pounds in January
- First Bashary tribe museum established in Shalateen city near border with Sudan
Tuesday
- Egypt to extend state of emergency for three months
- Egypt files murder charges against man held for Coptic church attack
- Two held in Egyptian anti-gay crackdown are freed on bail
Wednesday
- Egypt 2017 trade deficit falls 26% year on year
- Egyptian stocks values back to pre-devaluation levels
Thursday
- Sudan recalls its ambassador from Egypt amid tensions
- Egypt denies requesting exclusion of Sudan from Ethiopian dam negotiations
- Egyptian police arrest 75 members of human trafficking ring, including government officials
- Khaled Ali’s appeal against prison sentence is adjourned again
Friday
- One tourist is killed after a hot air balloon has crashed near Luxor
- ‘Sinai Province’ vows to target Hamas militants in a video message
- UN denounces execution of 20 men in Egypt
- Egypt garners 3 CAF titles, Mohamed Salah named best African player
- Regular flights from Italy’s Milan to Egypt’s Sharm El-Sheikh to resume at end of January
Saturday
- Egyptian Copts mark Christmas Eve after bloody year
- Sisi attended Christmas mass at the new Nativity of Christ Cathedral in the new administrative capital
- Army and police intensifies deployment during Coptic Christmas
- Russia resumes passenger flights to Cairo after 2-year construction
- Dozens of protesters have attacked a Cairo police station over reports a detainee died in custody
- Egypt prosecution investigates sudden death of detainee in a police station
Sunday
- Former Egyptian prime minister Ahmed Shafik is no longer considering running for president in this year’s election
- Egypt refutes a New York Times’ report on tacit acceptance of Jerusalem move
- Hot air balloon flights continue in Egypt’s Luxor, investigation still on going into Friday’s accident
- Iraq waits for Egyptian company assistance in Iraqi reconstruction
Good Reports
- Erdogan’s Ottoman dream causes storm in the Red Sea. Fehim Tastekin
- Aspiring Coptic soccer players are finally make it to playing field. Hossam Rabie
Good Read
- Egypt First: Under Sisi, Cairo Cairo is going its own way. Michael Hanna and Daniel Benaim
- Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: Bringing in the Bank. Doaa El-Bey
- A clutch of challengers could shake up Egypt’s presidential race.
From Twitter
Sports
- Egypt wins National team of the Year award
Plus
- A boy from Egypt has been dubbed “the smartest child in the world”
- Transgender in Egypt: the forbidden life
- 12-metre-long dead whale washes up on Alexandria shore
Finally here are Jayson Casper’s prayers for Egypt
Nervana 
Reblogged this on Ned Hamson's Second Line View of the News.
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