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It was a busy night on the airwaves, with the nation’s talking heads covering President Abdel Fattah El Sisi’s trip to Kenya, a potential disease outbreak in Qena governorate, and updates on the Marsa Matrouh murder.
El Sisi at the African Union meeting in Kenya: President El Sisi was in Kenya yesterday to participate in the African Union’s mid-year coordination meeting. His speech at the gathering presented “a path to resolve the African issues. Egypt is working towards complete African integration through its diplomatic strength and finding solutions to all African issues,” foreign affairs professor Hamed Fares told Al Hayah Al Youm (watch, runtime: 2:54). The story also received attention from Masa’a DMC (watch, runtime: 3:40) and Ala Mas’ouleety (watch, runtime: 21:08).
Qena outbreak: A number of people in a village in Qena have been found to be suffering from the same flu symptoms, including high fever, bone pain, and fatigue, according to the Health Ministry, which said yesterday that it has sent a delegation to the village to investigate. “We have surveyed around two-thirds of the households in the infected village and we found 67 cases of people suffering from similar symptoms, which align with a number of diagnoses including the seasonal flu and heat strokes,” Amr Kandil, head of preventive medicine at the ministry, told Kelma Akhira’s Lamees El Hadidi (watch, runtime: 14:52). The worst case scenario is there are some 100-200 cases across the village, he said, adding that all the cases have mild to medium symptoms and are receiving treatment at home. Kandil made the rounds, joining El Hekaya (watch, runtime: 4:20) and Ala Mas’ouleety (watch, runtime: 3:32) to brief them on the matter.
Sidi Barrani police officer charged for killing man: The Public Prosecution yesterday referred a police officer who killed a Bedouin man in the Marsa Matrouh village of Sidi Barrani to criminal court. Kelma Akhira (watch, runtime: 9:37) El Hekaya (watch, runtime: 7:56), and Ala Mas’ouleety (watch, runtime: 10:55) all had the news.
The IMF is content with our progress on privatization, so what’s the hold up on the first review? “The one issue that the two sides are still stuck on is the fully flexible exchange rate. Any new exchange rate fluctuations would be a burden,” economist Medhat Nafea told El Hadidi (watch, runtime: 6:08). “The IMF’s statement is a sign that we are on the right track when it comes to a number of issues concerned with our macroeconomic stability,” he added. The first review of our USD 3 bn loan program has been on hold since mid-March after we fell short on meeting several key conditions of the loan agreement. We have the details of the IMF’s statement in the news well, above.
REMEMBER- The government announced last Tuesday that it has agreed to sell USD 1.9 bnworth of state-owned assets under its privatization program as part of its efforts to bring in more hard currency into the country and decrease its role in the economy.
