Top Headlines

• Egypt to decline any request by US to send troops to Syria
• Egypt regrets lack of response from Ethiopia and Sudan to invitation to discuss dam on Friday, says FM Shoukry
• Sudan complains to UN over Egypt holding elections in Halaib triangle
• Egypt Faces 54 Billion Cubic Meters Water Shortage
• Egyptian parliament’s majority coalition moves to form political party 
• Salah wins English PFA Player of the Year award

Main Headlines

 Monday

• Egypt’s jobless rate dips to 11.8 %, but private sector growth remains elusive
• Egypt’s President Sisi attends Gulf Shield military drill in Saudi Arabia
• Egypt’s Suez Canalrevenues rise to $463 million in March
• Egypt to raise tobacco tax revenuesby EGP 7.072 billion in 2018-19
• Egypt’s FM Shoukry heading to Burundito discuss bilateral ties, Nile water issues

Tuesday

• Egypt to decline any request by US to send troops to Syria
• Hamas delegationin Cairo for talks with Egyptian officials
• Egypt to discuss with Russia resumption of flightsto Sharm El-Sheikh and Hurghada
• Egyptian court hands ten-year prison terms to five over deadly Alexandria train collision
• Eni aimsto increase gas production from Egypt’s Zohr field to 1.2 billion cubic feet per day
• Court extends detention of ‘Masr al-Arabia’ editor-in-chieffor further 15 days
• Egypt to introduce electronic tests for Thanaweya Amma starting 2018

Wednesday

• Egyptian army kills emir of a terrorist organization in central Sinai
• Prosecution accepts footballer Aboutrika appealto be excluded from terrorist list
• Twelve Egypt Air officials and employees were arrested over drug smuggling

Thursday

• Egypt regrets lack of response from Ethiopia and Sudan to invitation to discuss dam on Friday, says FM Shoukry
• IMF expectsEgypt’s economic growth rate to reach 5.8 percent in 2019
• Egypt’s Minister of Defence Sedki Sobhy discusses regional developments with with Greek counterpart
• Steigenberger Hotels to expand in Egypt with new hotel in Luxor in Luxor

Friday 

• No GERD situationwill be imposed on Egypt: minister
• Sudan complains to UN over Egypt holding elections in Halaib triangle
• Employees at Turkey-based Al-Sharq news channeladmit Qatari financing
• Egypt releases Al-Masry Al-Youm editor on bail after election coverage

Saturday

• Egypt faces 54 billion cubic meters water shortage
• Egypt moves against fatal online games
• Egypt announces new strategy to double number of e-commerce businesses by 2020
• Lawyer of killed Egyptian in UK receives death threats

Sunday

• Salah wins English Professional footballers’ association PFA Player of the Year Award
• Egyptian parliament’s majority coalition moves to form a political party
• Palestinian official: Egypt willing to transfer engineer’s remains to Gaza
• Egypt criticizes UNESCO awarding photographer Shawkan
• Egypt aims for $10 billion foreign investment in oil and gas in 2018/19
• Egypt forecasts more than 8 million visitors in 2018

 Good Reports

• Egyptian mosque bill could pit government against top religious body. Ahmed Fouad
• Egypt to slash energy subsidies as it battles to rein in debt.FT

 From Twitter

Interview

• Cypriot President Anastasiades discusses relations with Egypt

Plus

• Egypt says archaeologists have discovered a bust of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius in the southern city of Aswan
• The history of attendance by state leaders at Arab League summits
• 30% of high-school students in Egypt suffer psychological problems suffer psychological problems

Finally here are Jayson Casper’s prayers for Egypt