Top Headlines
- Presidential elections set for March 26-28 in Egypt
- Egypt opens criminal inquiry over a New York Times article
- Egypt approves cabinet reshuffle ahead of elections
- Ex-military chief of staff General Sami Anan will run in Egyptian presidential election
- Israel had destroyed a cross-border attack tunnel that ran from Gaza into Israel and Egypt
- Alexandria court overturns sentence against activist Mahinour El-Masry in Red Sea islands protest case
Main Headlines
Monday
- Egypt building huge water treatment plant amid supply concerns
- Egypt detains two police after detainee death sparks clashes
- Actress Yousra to issue complaint against the New York Times after controversy
Tuesday
- Presidential elections set for March 26-28 in Egypt
- Leaders of Egypt and Eritrea discuss Nile tensions and security
- Sisi vows to protect Egypt’s share of Nile water
- Sudan protests to UN over Egypt hold on border territory
- Eight terrorists were killed in an exchange of fire with security forces during a raid on hideout in North Sinai
- Police probe how a British lady jailed in Egypt for Tramadol possession got the 290 pills
- Egypt parliament preliminarily approves country’s first bankruptcy law
Wednesday
- Egypt opens criminal inquiry over a New York Times article
- Sisi reactivates ‘Ask the President’ initiative to communicate with citizens
Thursday
- Ex-military chief of staff General Sami Anan will run in Egyptian presidential election
- Egyptian lawyer Khaled Ali officially declares intention to run for president in 2018 election
- Egypt court overturns sentence against Mubarak-era interior minister
- Italian investigators have obtained the computer and mobile phone of a Cambridge University lecturer whose student was murdered in Egypt
- Egypt falls under ‘travel with increased caution’ category in an updated US travel advisory
Friday
- Annual inflation rate declines by 0.2%, lowest since November 2015
- Egypt’s inflation drop shows spending level still low, say economists
- Largest fleet of Czech tour operators to visit Marsa Alam in January
- Military court jails 51 Muslim Brotherhood members for 15 years
Saturday
- Egypt announces curfew in parts of North Sinai
- Ethiopian PM to arrive in Egypt on Monday after one-month delay
- Moderate turnout for presidential candidacy authorizations, presidential hopefuls complain of harassment
- Egypt’s tourism revenues jump 123.5 percent to $7.6 billion in 2017 –government official
- Cairo: Muslim Brotherhood’s efforts to disrupt Egypt-Kuwait relations are known
Sunday
- Israel had destroyed a cross-border attack tunnel that ran from Gaza into Israel and Egypt from Gaza into Israel and Egypt
- Egypt approves cabinet reshuffle ahead of elections
- Egypt concerned over Turkey’s alleged shipment of explosives to Libya
- Egyptian fire kills Palestinian fisherman at sea
- Egyptian MP and lawyer Mortada Mansour to run for president in 2018 election
- Alexandria court overturns sentence against activist Mahinour El-Masry in Red Sea islands protest case
- Sudan’s foreign ministry refutes reports on ambassador statement ‘declaring war’ on Egypt
Good Reports
- Meet Egypt’s potential presidential candidates. Al-Masry Al-Youm
- Ethiopia and Sudan consolidate bilateral relations amid souring ties with Egypt. Al-Masry Al-Youm
- ‘Water war’ escalates between Egypt and Sudan. Giorgio Cafiero
- Death by torture in Moqattam Police Station: the final two hours of Afroto. Basma Mostafa
- Looking at Egyptian Eritrean relations.Egypt Today
- Daily nightmare of commuting on Egypt roads. Arab News
From Twitter
https://twitter.com/hahellyer/status/951393145413042176
https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/952506205225627648
Plus
Plus
- A mysterious chamber in Egypt’s Giza pyramid could hold an alien artefact, according to scientists
- International Economic Forum ranks Egypt as second cheapest tourist destination in the world
- Child marriage: 11-year is engaged to 12-year in kafr al-Sheikh
Finally, here are Jayson Casper’s prayers for Egypt
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