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

Read

From Twitter

About nervana111

Doctor, blogger and Commentator on Middle East issues. The only practising doctor who write in Middle Eastern politics in UK.
This entry was posted in Diary of Aak, Egypt and tagged , , , , , . Bookmark the permalink.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s