This Week in Egypt: Week 5-2019 ( Jan 28-Feb 3)


Top Headlines 

  • France’s Macron: Egypt’s rights record seen as worse than under Mubarak
  • A group of Egyptian lawmakers seek to extend El-Sisi term to at least 2024
  • Egypt’s military kills 8 ‘extremely dangerous’ terroristsin the Western desert
  • British woman jailed over painkillers is freed from Egyptian prison after presidential pardon
  • Egypt Unveils Pharaonic Tomb With 50 Mummies

 

Main Headlines

 Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

  • Human Rights Advocates were accused of spreading ‘false news’ after meeting with Macron
  • Egyptian-Kuwaiti joint military drills kick off in Kuwait
  • Egypt’s garment exports hit $1.5 billion in 2018: Garment council
  • Alexandria deputy government is sentenced to 12 years over bribes

Friday

  • Egypt officials discuss future of Downtown government buildings in light of new capital move
  • Egypt’s stock market gains 43.7 billion dollars in January
  • Egypt stops first desert locust attack on Sudan border this year

Saturday

Sunday

  • A group of Egyptian lawmakers seek to extend El-Sisi term to at least 2024
  • Egypt’s short-term dollar debt drops to $14 billion
  • Hamas’s Haniya visits Egypt for talks on Israel truce on truce with Israel
  • Grand Imam of al-Azhar Ahmad al-Tayyeb to hold a historic inter-faith summit with Pope Francis in in Abu Dhabi

Reports

From Twitter

https://twitter.com/An_Egyptian/status/1090560112027148290

https://twitter.com/Fnews_French/status/1090333117334937600

https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1089869392815374337?s=21

 

https://twitter.com/SameralAtrush/status/1091766299800285185

https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1091629799951327233

https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1091410856535965702

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