This Week in Egypt: Week 41-2020 ( Oct 5- 11)


Top Headlines

  • Egypt’s Sisi ratifies maritime demarcation agreement with Greece
  • Russia and Egypt to hold joint naval drills in Black Sea 
  • Egypt’s annual inflation continues to drop to 3.3%
  • Egypt keeps domestic fuel prices unchanged
  • Egypt receives a new baby every 13.5 seconds as population quintupled since 1950 

Main Headlines

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

  • Head of Al-Azhar calls for ceasefire between Azerbaijan, Armenia in Nagorno-Karabakh
  • Egypt Air resumes flights between Alexandria and Dubai

Saturday

  • Egypt’s Sisi ratifies maritime demarcation agreement with Greece
  • Egypt’s annual inflation continues to drop to 3.3%

Sunday

Reports

  • For Coptic Church, changes, questions after priest ouster. Mariam Fam 
  • Egypt is busily building expressways. The Economist
  • Ethiopia’s new ambassador to Egypt, says his mission is to promote bilateral relations despite dispute over GERD. Dina Ezzat 
  • Egyptians take off masks: Mistiming the second coronavirus wave. Ahmed Morsy
  • lost languages are discovered in one of the World’s oldest continuously run libraries. Brigit Katz
  •  Al-Arabiya documentary on Egyptian Jews

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