I am deeply grateful for my friend J who kindly volunteered to compile this week’s Egypt’s news and reports, as I am currently sick and unable to do the work.
Top Headlines
- Egypt’s Sisi arrives in France for G7 summit
- Egypt cuts interest rates for the first time in six months after inflation Relief
- Next meeting on Ethiopian Renaissance Dam postponed until September, negotiations unfruitful so far
- Egypt arrests son of Abbas’s adviser
- Young Muslim Brothers serving long jail terms in Egypt have demanded the group’s leadership resigns
- Time picks Egypt’s Red Sea Mountain Trail as one of World’s Greatest Places 2019
Main Headlines
Monday
- Egypt signs new agreements worth €1.5 mln with EBRD to improve railway sector
- Egypt’s U-19 handball team wins world championship
Tuesday
- Egypt’s police kills 11 militants in North Sinai farm in a farm in North Sinai
- Human rights community in Egypt calls on UN to ‘explicitly cancel’ anti-torture conference
- Egypt to reopen historic Baron palace after $6M restoration
Wednesday
- Egypt arrests son of PA official, a BDS activist for aiding “a terror group”
- Brits warned of E-coli outbreak in Egyptian resort one year after couple’s death
- Sisi orders adopting latest international standards in relocating government offices to Egypt’s new capital
- Egypt’s iconic Tahrir Square to be renovated
- Egypt and China naval forces carry out joint military drills
Thursday
- Egypt cuts interest rates for the first time in six months after inflation relief
- Next meeting on Ethiopian Renaissance Dam postponed until September, negotiations unfruitful so far
- Egypt raises investments in Sinai by 75% in 2019-20
- Japanese investments in Egypt hits $ 880 million, increases by 74.3% in FY 2017/2018
Friday
- Outlawed Muslim Brotherhood attempts to save son of the prominent Palestinian official arrested in Egypt
- Egyptian cabinet approves contract for new terminal in East Port Said
- Supreme MediaCouncil secretary-general is detained for four days over bribery charges
- Egypt’s Sisi ratifies social security and pension law
Saturday
- Egypt’s Sisi arrives in France for G7 summit
- Military Production Ministry releases recent M1A1 Abrams photos
- Egypt’s New Administrative Capital to host ‘Invest in Africa 2019-conference
- Egypt’s exports to G7 states surge-8.8 percentin Jan-June 2019
Sunday
- Sisi meets African presidents to coordinate stances during G7 summit
- Egypt is determined to uncover truth of Italian student’s murder: Sisi tells Italy’s PM
- Egypt’s Media council blocks two websites for spreading fake news about Huawei
Good Reports and Read
- Brotherhood’s internal wars.Gamal Essam El-Din
- How two Islamic groups fell from power to persecution: Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and Turkey’s Gulenists. Ahmet Kuru
- What’s behind the Egypt, Cyprus rapprochement? Ahmed Youness
- Egypt declares water emergency as a precaution. Ayah Aman
- Egypt’s greenhouse mega project significant leap to achieving food security. Xinhua
Interview
- Mohamed Salah is ‘happy at Liverpool’; less so with the Egyptian FA. CNN
From Twitter
Plus
- Egypt’s media watchdog to investigate TV host for ‘eyesore’ comments about overweight people.
- A little-known gem of world cinema from Egypt
Nervana 