With Amr Adib off the airwaves last night, CBC’s Extra News was the only other show to offer anything of substance — mainly on the issue of land reclamation.

The government processing over 17,000 requests from people and companies who want to acquire (or re-acquire) some of the 1.7 mn feddans of state land reclaimed in a recent government campaign,a government spokesman told the news show. (Watch, runtime: 7: 34).

Assiut Governor Yasser El Dessouki also phoned in to say that authorities in his governorate have seized around 4.7 mn sqm of land in 43 separate cases (watch, runtime 10: 14).

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