Top Headlines
- Egypt’s booming population officially hits 100 million
- Egypt reports Africa’s first coronavirus case
- No breakthrough yet on Nile dam talks, Ethiopia says
- Egyptian pound strengthens to three-year high against the US dollar
- Egyptian security forces kill 17 militants in shootout in North Sinai
- Egypt builds a wall on border with Gaza
Main Headlines
Monday
- Egyptian pound strengthens to three-year high against the US dollar
- Egypt and Germany sign gas exploration agreement in Nile Delta
- Egypt’s parliament discards ‘television channels and social media accounts’ from terrorist entities law
Tuesday
- Egypt’s booming population officially hits 100 million
- Egypt’s PM reviews plan to relocate 52,000 employees to New Administrative Capital
- Egypt to set up its first oil and gas exploration website to help foreign investors
- Egypt’s FM Shoukry heads to Washington for final efforts to settle GERD issue
- Direct flights between Luxor and Sharm El-Sheikh to start on 20 Feb: Egypt Air
Wednesday
- Egypt is talking to IMF about technical assistance: Central bank
- Doctors in Egypt launch anti-genital cutting campaign after girl dies
- Egyptian security forces kill 17 militants in shootout in North Sinai
Thursday
- Second day of talks on Ethiopian GERD dam kicks off in Washington
- Mask prices in Egypt skyrocket over coronavirus fears
- Italy’s Edison starts exploratory drilling for gas in Egypt
- Egypt did not import any liquefied natural gas in 2019
- Egypt approves first gold mining licence in more than a decade
- Egypt signs $35 million oil, gas exploration deal with Neptune energy
- Muslim Brotherhood’s Tariq Ramadan formally charged with two more counts of rape
Friday
- Egypt reports Africa’s first case of coronavirus
- No breakthrough yet on Nile dam talks, Ethiopia says
- Egypt’s Foreign Ministry says GERD agreement to be signed before end of February
- A British man has been arrested and accused of sexual assault for patting a male police officer on the back at an airport in Egypt
- Thousands sign petition demanding release of British holidaymaker held in Egypt
Saturday
- UK man arrested in Egypt for ‘pat on the back’ is released
- Egypt expects final agreement on GERD “to be fair”
- Egypt achieves highest growth rate in 11 years, tops ME economies
- Egypt’s FM Shoukry presents vision on challenges in North East Africa at Munich Security Council meeting
- Egypt Air receives its first Airbus 320
Sunday
- Egypt’s FM underlines necessity of restoring legitimacy to Libya’s institutions
- Researcher Patrick Zaki to remain in custody over broadcasting false news
- Egypt’s top prosecutor denies activist was tortured
Reports
- Egypt builds a wall on border with Gaza.Rasha Abou Jalal
- Egypt shows diplomatic finesse forging Gaza cease-fire. Al-Monitor
- Egypt brings long-awaited compensation to thousands of Nubians. Muhammad Ghamrawy
Read
- Why Egypt and Ethiopia can’t agree on how to manage water resources. Michael Greco
- Libya in focus. Dina Ezzat
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