{"id":648858,"date":"2017-04-13T03:58:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T03:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/04\/13\/pickups-of-the-interior-ministrys-statement-identifying-the-attackers-top-headlines\/"},"modified":"2017-04-13T03:58:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T03:58:48","slug":"pickups-of-the-interior-ministrys-statement-identifying-the-attackers-top-headlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/04\/13\/pickups-of-the-interior-ministrys-statement-identifying-the-attackers-top-headlines\/","title":{"rendered":"Pickups of the Interior Ministry\u2019s statement identifying the attackers top headlines"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coverage of the aftermath of the church bombings continues to dominate the conversation about Egypt in the international press this morning, with pickups<\/strong><\/a> of the Interior Ministry\u2019s statement identifying the attackers being the most talked about story<\/strong>. Other stories worth noting include:<\/p>\n

Sunday\u2019s attacks left President Abdel Fattah El Sisi grappling with the question<\/strong> of how to defeat a Daesh insurgency while also trying to repair \u201ca broken economy,\u201d<\/strong> Hamza Hendawi writes for the Associated Press<\/a>. He notes that \u201cmilitants are adapting and finding new ways of hitting back\u201d and that they are now clearly targeting Christians with an aim \u201cto embarrass el-Sissi by exposing holes in security.\u201d Hendawi adds that economic tensions could possibly increase over the summer and that the attacks and the state of emergency that followed only further undermine efforts to revive the tourism industry.<\/p>\n

Sunday\u2019s church bombings and the subsequent state of emergency risk derailing<\/strong>the economic reform agenda<\/strong>, says business analysis firm Frontera News<\/a> in a series of five short pieces on Wednesday. The risks are twofold: this week\u2019s events may add fuel to the discontent<\/a> felt on the street-level to the high inflation \u2014 already the biggest challenge to the reform program; and the bombings might risk Egypt losing the backing<\/a> of foreign investors, who may view the country as not as stable as previously thought. Unlike its previous series<\/a> on Egypt, Frontera appears to have changed its tune on the reform agenda itself, which they feel has been helping Egypt diversify away from its tourism industry<\/a>. It acknowledges that the pace of inflation has slowed down in March, but notes<\/a> that it is too early to expect this slowing down of inflation to start showing its impact at the retail level, especially at a time when the country is trying to push through more reforms.<\/p>\n

Al Arabiya<\/a> is dabbling in self-orientalism, with Egyptian pundit Mohamed Noseir<\/strong>suggesting there are several cultural practices unique to Egypt<\/strong> that have both inspired the attacks and have led to the security lapse that have allowed the attacks to happen. He has a point on some of these, namely the propensity to invoke a state of emergency, which he says doesn\u2019t really deter terrorists and might scare off potential investments. Others are just plain asinine, such as this gem that when things are going well, we are not as cautious (as is every culture on the planet).<\/p>\n

Other international coverage in the aftermath of the Palm Sunday attacks included:<\/strong><\/p>\n