Top Headlines

• Saudi crown prince lands in Egypt on first public trip
• Egypt‘s top court waives legal challenges to Red Sea islands transfer to Saudi Arabia
• Egypt arrests mother of woman at center of a BBC report
• Cabinet approves bill allowing 53 churches to practice religious rituals nationwide

Saudi Crown Prince visits Cairo- Photo via The National

Main Headlines

Monday

• Egypt’s army chief of staff urges Sisi to extend Operation Sinai 2018 beyond the three-month timeframe
• Egyptian cabinet begins legalisation procedures for 53 unlicensed churches
• Egyptian prosecution renews detention of opposition figure Aboul Fetouh
• 221,675 refugees registered in Egypt as of 2018, more than half are Syrian

Tuesday

• Young Egyptian woman alleged as ‘forcibly disappeared’ in BBC report appears on screen, refutes torture claims
• Egypt calls for BBC boycott amid dispute over critical report
• Egypt’s National Media Authority suspends cooperation with BBC over controversial report
• Egypt aborts suicide attack