This Week in Egypt: Week 25-2022 ( June 20-26)


Top Headlines

  • US held a secret meeting with Isaeli and Arab military chiefs in Egypt’s Sharm El-Sheikh 
  • Saudi crown prince lands in Egypt on start of regional tour
  • Qatar’s Tamim to visit Egypt for first time since boycott
  • 5th trilateral meeting of Greek, Cypriot, and Egyptian defence ministers in Cairo  
  • Egyptian trade delegation makes rare visit to Israel
  • Egypt’s Central Bank keeps interest rates unchanged
  • Egypt’s strategic wheat reserves sufficient for 5.7 months
  • Telecom Egypt to connect to Greece after new subsea agreement
  • Egypt to convert the largest government building in Cairo into a luxury hotel 

Main Headlines

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

  • Saudi Arabia’s Jamjoom Pharma launches new factory in Egypt
  • Egypt converts the largest government building in Cairo into a luxury hotel
  • Prosecution refers suspect to trial in Mansoura student murder 

Thursday

  • Egypt’s Central Bank keeps interest rates unchanged
  • Greek-Egyptian deal on underwater cable 
  • Liz Truss vows to help free British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah on hunger strike

Friday

  • Emir of Qatar to visit Egypt for first time since boycott
  • A new Egypt deal with IMF likely to be four-year EFF loan

Saturday

Sunday

Reports

  • Egypt’s Sisi, Arab leaders coordinate positions ahead of Biden visit. Ahmed Gomaa
  • Egypt plans to use ruble in trade with Russia. Mohamed Sabry
  • Egypt looks to Somalia for more influence in Red Sea, Nile dam dispute. Mohamed Saied
  • A woman’s brutal murder shocks the Arab world.  CNN

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