This Week in Egypt: Week 36 -2018 ( Sept 3-9)

Top Headlines

• Egypt sentences hundreds over 2013 pro-Morsi protests, including 75 to death
• An Egyptian Man was arrested after backpack ignites near U.S. embassy in Cairo
• Egypt’s foreign debt rises to $92.64 bln at end-June
• Egyptian church suspends one monk for a year and permanently expels another
• Egyptian Armed Forces launch first Gowind-class Corvette made in Egypt
• Egypt is fined $2 billion over natural gas dispute
• Cairo court reduces sentence for Lebanese Mona Mazbouh to suspended jail term
• Egypt nears completion of its $1billion transport link under the Suez Canal that will reduce travel time from several hours to four minutes

 Main Headlines

 Monday

• Egypt is following ‘grave developments’ in Libya with deep concern: FM statement
• Egyptian police arrests 38 in Minya village for attacking Copts
• Egypt’s Sisi meets South Sudan’s Salva Kiir on side-lines of FOCAC summit in Beijing
• Two Monks begin trial over murder of Egyptian Bishop Epiphanius

Tuesday

• An Egyptian man is arrested after his backpack ignites near U.S. embassy in Cairo
• The US Embassy in Cairo announced that business is back as usual, following false concerns over an earlier bomb attack
• Egypt’s Sisi: Egypt to continue supporting South Sudan
• Egypt is fined $2 billion over natural gas dispute
• Egyptian church suspends one monk for a year and permanently expels another

Wednesday

• High level of E Coli and bacteria found at Egypt hotel where couple died
• Egypt can handle the emerging markets downturn ‘up to a limit,’ finance minister says
• UK appoints a new ambassador to Egypt
• Al-Azhar denounces Geert Wilders’s cancelled contest for prophet Muhammed cartoons

Thursday

• Egypt is working on selling shares in dozens of state-owned companies to help boost the state’s public finances
• Egypt’s Higher Administrative Court has upheld a verdict to relieve a police officer of his position for refusing to shave his beard
• 4 Egypt railway employees to face court for overturning train
• UN to help  provide Egypt solar energy and underground irrigation

Friday

• Egypt’s natural gas output rises to 6.6 billion cubic feet per day
• Spanish defender Ramos has ‘clear conscience’ over Mo Salah injury
• Egyptian Armed Forces launch first Gowind-class Corvette made in Egypt
• Egypt’s top prosecutor orders release bodies of British couples to British embassy

Saturday

• Egypt sentences hundreds over 2013 pro-Morsi protests ,including 75 to death
• Award-winning Egyptian photojournalist Shawkan to be released from prison due to time served: Lawyer
• US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has authorized the release of $1.2 billion in U.S. military assistance to Egypt
• US-Egypt military manoeuvre Bright Star 2018 to start today in Mohamed Naguib base west of Alexandria
• The Project Manager of Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam committed suicide, according to the Ethiopian police
• Egypt’s Sisi discusses boosting Egypt-US military cooperation with the with head of US Central Command
• Egypt witnessed gradually stronger growth, disinflation, rebound in FX reserves: Fitch senior director Middle East, Africa Sovereigns
• Calm returns to Upper Egypt village after sectarian clashes

Sunday

• UN human rights commissioner blasts Egypt’s 75 death sentences
• Egypt’s foreign debt rises to $92.64 billion at end-June, PM tells paper
• Cairo court reduces sentence for Lebanese Mona Mazbouh to suspended jail term reduce sentence
• Egypt’s Sisi inaugurates final phase of regional ring road and Nile Axis projects
• Egypt to hold defence expo EDEX next December for the first time
• Egypt and World Bank mission discuss extending $1 bln for supporting development in Sinai

 Good Reports

• Egypt announces massive budget to develop Sinai. Menna Farouk
• At long last, a verdict for Rabea.  Mada Masr
• Legends and murders lurking behind church walls. Shady Lewis
• Why quinoa needs to become top of the crops in Egypt. Sarah El-Shaarawi
• Egypt and Fatah agree to freeze truce talks.  Mada Masr
• Egyptian “harasser”was stripped by crowd. BBC
• Egypt nears completion of its $1billion transport link under the Suez Canal that will reduce travel time from several hours to four minutes.  Sara Malm

Good Read

• Imprisoned in Egypt for his writing, Ahmed Naji is finally free. Y Z Chin

From Twitter

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Sports

• Egypt’s Salah competes with Modric and Ronaldo for “FIFA Men’s Player” award
• Egypt turned on the style in their first match under Javier Aguirre, recording a comprehensive 6-0 home win over Niger

Obituary

• Hussein Abdel-Razek, founder of Egypt’s modern left

 Plus

• Egypt inaugurates the tomb of sixth dynasty Vizier Mehu’s in Saqqara Necropolis 8 decades after its discovery
• Egypt’s illiteracy rates stand at 25.8% in 2017
• ‘We are not a suicide destination’: Egypt’s metro company