Top Headlines

• Lead partners in Israel’s largest gas fields sign $15 billion deal to export gas to Egypt 
• Egypt’s government is not a partner in $15 billion gas deal with Israel: Egyptian president Sisi
• Six Muslim Brotherhood fugitives arrested at ranch owned by Abdel Moneim Aboul-Futouh
• Opposition figure Abdel Moniem Aboul-Fotouh placed on terrorism list
• Security forces curb planned suicide attack in in North Sinai’s Al-Arish
• Egyptian security delegation arrives in Gaza for discussions with Hamas on faltering reconciliation accord
• Egypt’s presidential elections campaigning kicks off Saturday

 Main Headlines

 Monday

• Lead partners in Israel’s largest gas fields sign $15 billion deal to export gas to Egypt to export gas to Egypt
• Three Egyptian troops were killed in anti-militant operation in Sinai
• Head of Misr al-Qawya party Abdel Moniem Aboul-Fotouh refuses to comment on relation with MB during interrogation
• Cairo to open Rafah crossing for Palestinians stuck in Egypt
• A British man dies in Egypt after hospital ‘turn off life support because family couldn’t afford £7000 bill
• Teenage FGM rates in Egypt drop 13% in six years

Tuesday

• Egyptian officials say resumption of Russian flights is delayed
• Opposition figure Abdel Moniem Aboul-Fotouh placed on terrorism list
• Egyptian hospital denies turning off life-support for UK tourist after £7,000 medical bill
• Egypt’s Sisi receives South Sudanese envoy to discuss bilateral relations

Wednesday

• Egypt’s government is not a partner in $15 billion gas deal with Israel: Egyptian president Sisi
• Egypt has strong combat capabilities in securing Eastern Mediterranean gas: Armed Forces
• Six Muslim Brotherhood fugitives arrested at ranch owned by Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh

Thursday

• HuffPost journalist is detained over Hisham Geneina interview
• 21 defendants are sentenced to death to death in ‘Damietta terrorist cell’
• 680 foreign journalists are approved to cover Egypt’s upcoming presidential elections
• For the first time in 16 months the Central Bank of Egypt has opted to cut interest rates

Friday

• Tensions flare in east Mediterranean gas scramble
• Cyprus to Egypt gas pipeline deal to be signed: Petroleum Minister
• Security forces curb planned suicide attack in in North Sinai’s Al-Arish
• 71 militants were killed and 158 stationing points were destroyed in Sinai 2018 operation: Army spokesperson
• I am not funded nor have I been pressured to run for presidency: Presidential hopeful Moussa
• Sisi campaign urges citizens to cast their ballots in upcoming elections

Saturday

• Egypt presidential race starts with Sisi favourite to win
• Court reduces activist Ahmed Douma’s sentence to LE 10,000 fine for ‘insulting judiciary’ for “insulting judiciary”
• Egypt’s Antiquities Ministry announces the discovery of an ancient necropolis near the Nile Valley city of Minya, south of Cairo.
• Egypt’s crude oil production to reach 661,000 bpd by March
• Egypt’s minister of irrigation: The start of storage of water at the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam will not affect will not affect Egypt’s High Dam

Sunday

• Egypt, France conclude joint naval exercises in Red Sea
• Egyptian president Sisi inaugurates new counter-terrorism command east of Suez Canal
• Egypt’s top prosecutor orders assets freeze of opposition figure Aboul-Fotouh and 15 others
• Egyptian security delegation arrives in Gaza for discussions with Hamas on faltering reconciliation accord
• BBC report on torture in Egypt contains ‘lies and allegations’: Egypt’s state of information service
• Sudan’s ambassador to Egypt to return to Cairo after withdrawal
• Cyprus calls on international community to stop “Turkish provocations”

Good Reports

• With new gas deals, Egypt closes in on energy hub goal. Patrick Werr
• Egypt settles a dispute with an Israeli electricity company and a key pipeline operator to get $15 billion gas deal back on track. Abdel Latif Wahba
• Winners and losers from the Egypt-Israel gas deal. Jamal Jawhar
• Not all Coptic youths on board with church’s support of Sisi.Hossam Rabie
• Egypt builds world’s largest solar park. Farah Tawfeek

Good Read

• Egypt and Greece are coordinating closely to protect their common interests. Ahmed Eleiba

From Twitter

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Sports

• Egypt’s Nile River embraces dragon boat race to celebrate spring festival

Plus

• Egyptian women beats her harasser, gets him arrested and goes viral
• Egypt opens first charging station for electric cars

Finally here are Jayson Casper’s prayers for Egypt