This Week in Egypt: Week 32-2021 ( Aug 9-15)


Top Headlines

  • Egypt’s Sisi and CIA Director William Burns hold talks in Cairo
  • Egypt’s Berenice Military Base receives Charles Cooper II, US ambassador to Cairo
  • Nine Egyptian soldiers were killed in clashes with Islamist militants in Sinai, Egyptian armed forces kill 13 militants in Sinai operation
  • Egypt and UAE conclude ‘Zayed-3’ joint air forces training

Main Headlines

Monday

Tuesday

  • Egypt’s annual headline inflation surges to 4.6% in July
  • Billionaire Naguib Sawiris offers student bullied over her dress full cost of private study 

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

  • Nine Egyptian soldiers were killed in clashes with Islamist militants in Sinai
  • Egypt officials say militant attack kills 7 troops in Sinai
  • Coca Cola HBC seals Egypt deal after first-half profit jump

Saturday

Sunday

Reports

  • Cairo backed Tunisian president’s actions against Brotherhood. Mohamed Saied
  • How contractors moved a 4,500-year-old Pharaoh’s ship to Egypt’s new museum. Global Construction Review
  • Egypt papyrus makers keep tradition alive despite tourism slump. France24

Read

  • Why ending Egypt’s bread subsidies holds great significance.  Hamza Hendawi 
  • New escalation in Ethiopia’s Tigray war. Lamis El-Sharaqawy 

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