Top Headlines
- Ten Egyptian army members were killed or wounded in a bomb attack
- Islamic State claims responsibility for Egypt’s Sinai attack
- Egypt says security forces kill 18 militants in Sinai
- Egypt announces 272 new coronavirus cases, total reaches 6,465
- Filmmaker who mocked the Egyptian President dies in prison
Main Headlines
Monday
- Egypt reports the highest single-day coronavirus death toll at 20, plus 248 new infections on Monday
- Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church announces first-ever coronavirus cases among clergymen
- Egypt’s Negelah quarantine hospital open despite two staff deaths from coronavirus
Tuesday
- Egypt’s Sisi extends Egypt’s state of emergency by 3 months
- Egypt supports political solution in Libya, but rejects negotiations with ‘terrorist groups’
- Air Cairo’s repatriation flights from Indonesia, Oman lands in Egypt’s Marsa Alam
- Egyptian prank show generates wave of complaints for “normalisation torture”
Wednesday
- Egyptian PM: Possible IMF loan would not lead to price hikes in Egypt
- Mansoura University Hospital closes internal medicine dept. after detecting Covid-19 cases
Thursday
- Ten Egyptian army members killed or wounded in a bomb attack
- Arab foreign ministers condemns Israeli plan to annex parts of occupied West Bank
- Egyptian bank net foreign assets plunge in March
- Unfazed by coronavirus, Egypt’s farmers harvest their wheat
- Egypt to auction $800 million in dollar-denominated T-bills
Friday
- Islamic State claims responsibility for Egypt’s Sinai attack
- Egyptian military kills two ‘takfiri elements’ in North Sinai during a raid
- Vice dean of Cairo University’s Faculty of Medicine dies after contracting coronavirus
- A residential block is Sohag is quarantined as 11 new Covid-19 cases are detected
Saturday
- 298 new coronavirus cases reported in Egypt on Saturday; total cases surpass 6,000 surpass 6000
- Egypt could be an unexpected winner from Lake Victoria’s water levels have surged to their highest level since 1964
- Egypt saw no injuries, property damage from Crete earthquake
- Filmmaker who mocked the Egyptian President dies in prison
Sunday
- Egypt says security forces kill 18 militants in Sinai
- Egypt announces 272 new coronavirus cases, total reaches 6,465
- Egyptian Medical Syndicate accuses hospital head of putting staff at risk of coronavirus infection
- Egypt and Italy FMs discuss achieving comprehensive settlement in the Libyan crisis
Reports
- Egypt battles the economic fallout of COVID-19. Mirette Mabrouk
- Egypt tightens sanctions for those who refuse to wear protective masks. Ahmed Youness.
- Egypt’s Sinai on the rise. Ahmed Eleiba
- Calls in Egypt for censored social media after arrests of a TikTok star and a belly dancer. Reuters
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