It’s a mixed bag of nuts for Egypt in the foreign press this morning. Five Egyptian UN peacekeepers will be honored posthumously today, among 4k military, police and civilian personnel worldwide who died in 2020 while serving in peacekeeping missions, according to Egypt’s UN Office. The Committee toProtect Journalists is out with a statement calling for the release of journalist Gamal Al Gamal from pretrial detention, saying his health has “seriously deteriorated.

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