Top Headlines
- Egypt extends night-time curfew until the end of Ramadan
- Egypt expects to secure final approval to borrow $2.7 billion from the IMF
- Egypt’s annual inflation jumps to 5.9%, monthly rate up to 1.6% in April
- Egypt’s foreign reserves fall to $37.037 billion at the end of April
- Egypt raises new tax on fuel as it confronts coronavirus crisis
- Israel to discuss with U.S. reported Sinai peacekeeper cutback plan
Main Headlines
Monday
- Egypt raises new tax on fuel as it confronts coronavirus crisis
- Egypt sends four military planes loaded with medical supplies to Sudan
- Egypt and UK agree to additional cooperation against Covid-19
- Egypt’s Suez Canal revenues up 2% in first four months of 2020 Egypt’s Suez Canal
Tuesday
- Egypt 2020/21 budget deficit could widen to 7.8% of GDP due to Coronavirus
- Egypt non-oil business collapses as coronavirus hits activity
- Egypt begins repatriating nationals from Kuwait
- Egyptian navy’s new Type 209/1400 submarine arrives in Alexandria
Wednesday
- Uber lays off hundreds in Egypt amid global cut
- Some Egyptians pack streets for Ramadan shopping despite coronavirus threat
- Egypt has conducted over one million PCR coronavirus tests
Thursday
- Egypt extends night-time curfew until the end of Ramadan
- Egypt expects to secure final approval to borrow $2.7 billion from the IMF
- Egypt’s foreign reserves fall to $37.037 billion by the end of April
- Foreign holdings of Egyptian pound T-bills fell by half in March
- Egypt and Sudan refused an Ethiopian proposal for disputed Nile Dam: Cairo tells UN Security Council
Friday
- Reported coronavirus cases in Egypt jump by nearly 500
- Israel to discuss with U.S. reported Sinai peacekeeper cutback plan
- Egypt must “coexist” with coronavirus as some restrictions begin easing in June: Cabinet
Saturday
- Egypt records 488 new coronavirus cases Saturday, bringing total to 8964
- Egypt’s 9th doctor dies from coronavirus
- Egyptian doctor becomes first health care worker to die on Kuwait’s coronavirus frontline
Sunday
- Egypt’s annual inflation jumps to 5.9%, monthly rate up to 1.6% in April
- Egyptian doctors call for full lockdown in a letter to the Prime Minister
- Egypt records 436 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, bringing total to 9400
- 40 % of staff tested for coronavirus at Cairo hospital come back positive
- Around 300 Egyptians stranded in Washington arrive in Marsa Alam
Reports
- ’The virus comes for us’: capturing the Covid-19 crisis facing Egypt’s poor Egypt’s poor. Elle Kurancid, photographs by Hamada Elrasam
- Irresponsibility leaves Egypt on brink of Covid-19 chaos. Egyptian Streets
- Life stands still in Egypt’s City of the dead as coronavirus fear spreads. Menna Farouk
- Egypt TV show aired during Ramadan under fire for insulting women.
Read
- The Renaissance Dam crisis and the Ethiopian allegations. Mohamed Nasr El-Din Allam
From Twitter
Plus
- Egyptians consuming 40% less desserts this Ramadan
- Egyptian actor Hisham Salim and transgender son sit down for unprecedented TV interview
- Legendary Quran reciter Sheikh El-Tablawy dies at 86
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