El Sisi meets Abe in Japan, Cabinet passes new energy exploration agreements

Talk shows look like they’re about ready for the weekend:

President Abdel Fattah El Sisi’s meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (Ticad) was more or less the talk of the town last night (watch, runtime: 04:24) and (watch, runtime: 01:49). We have all you need to know about this in this morning’s Speed Round, below.

The cabinet’s greenlighting of 17 new oil and gas exploration and production agreements between EGPC, Ganope and Egas also earned some airtime with Masaa DMC’s Ramy Radwan (watch, runtime: 01:19). We also have more on this in the Speed Round, below.