Today’s headlines: September 10, 2020

Mada Masr brings you headlines from Egypt's private and state-owned newspapers, as listed in the Mada Morning Digest. Covering state and privately-owned newspapers, the Morning Digest is a daily snapshot of the most important news coming out of Egypt, offering exclusive information usually only available to the Arabic reader, and insight into some of the discourses operating in the country’s media landscape.

The main headlines today in state and privately-owned newspapers:

Land and urban policy

⦿ Prime Minister Mostafa Madbuly: Discounts ranging from 10% to 55% on building violations reconciliation, Al-Watan (online)

⦿ Cairo governor: Reduction of price/m2 of building violations for [facilitation of] reconciliation, Al-Masry Al-Youm (online)

⦿ Seginy: Citizens' appetite for reconciliation increases when balanced prices are provided, Al-Shorouk (online)

⦿ Owner is responsible for violation: [PM] Madbuly's full statements about building violations, Al-Shorouk (online)

⦿ Madbuly: Reconciliation for construction violations contributes to increasing real estate values, Al-Masry Al-Youm (online)

⦿ Government: Governors were instructed to take social dimension into account when estimating reconciliation prices, Cairo24 (online)

⦿ Parliament’s Local Administration Committee: Government does not demolish any inhabited buildings, Al-Wafd (online)

⦿ Madbuly: We need LE300 bn to deliver sanitation to all villages in Egypt, Al-Watan (online)

⦿ Cabinet: Government facilitations aim to avoid removing violating buildings or cutting off their facilities, Al-Wafd (online)

⦿ Madbuly: Random growth devours state's efforts to raise infrastructure efficiency, Al-Watan (online)

⦿ Cabinet spox affirms there is no reconciliation for encroachments on Nile, Youm7 (online)

⦿ PM: We’ve lost 90,000 acres of agricultural land since 2011, Al-Watan (online)

⦿ PM: Accepting all requests for reconciliation for building violations, time limit of 2 months to complete [processing] papers, Al-Borsa (online)

⦿ [Cabinet spox] Nader Saad: [You can’t apply for] 2-month reconciliation period after September 30th, Masrawy (online)

⦿ MP: Reconciliation law targets 3 million building violations, Al-Ahram (online)

⦿ Madbuly: Past economic, political conditions caused state to turn blind eye to building violations, Al-Masry Al-Youm (online)

⦿ Establishing social housing units in 6th of October over next 4 years valued at EGP12 bn, Al-Masry Al-Youm (online)

⦿ Madbuly: State is expanding, creating new generation of cities to accommodate population increase, Cairo24 (online)

Judiciary

⦿ ‘She insulted me and said offensive statements against judiciary, prosecution,’ What did the officer of ‘the lady of the court’ incident say, Al-Masry Al-Youm (online)

Gender and politics

⦿ NCW delegation discusses work of anti-violence against women unit in Academy of Arts, Al-Shorouk (online)

⦿ [NCW head] Maya Morsi discusses with UN Women representative in Egypt ways of cooperation between the 2 sides, Al-Ahram (online)

⦿ New report accuses Fairmont victim of drug use and incitement of debauchery, Al-Watan (online)

Health 

⦿ Public Curative Care Authority: More than 42,000 medical tests for women in Port Said since launch of comprehensive health insurance system [in July last year], Al-Masry Al-Youm (online)

⦿ ‘Martyr’ 163: Dr. Tariq Abdel Aziz, anesthesia teacher in Mansoura, Doctors Syndicate: He was injured while working, died in home isolation, Darb (online)

Politics and religion

⦿ Pope Tawadros II: Weekly sermon to return with precautionary and preventive measures, Al-Shorouk (online)

⦿ Pope Tawadros II discusses media map in Egypt, Al-Masry Al-Youm (online)

Foreign relations

⦿ Irrigation Ministry announces package of development projects for South Sudan, Al-Dostor (online)

⦿ Health minister inspects Wad Ramli shelter camp affected by flooding in Sudan, Al-Ahram (online)

⦿ Shoukry participates in Council of Arab League meeting via video conference, Al-Shorouk (online) 

⦿ Foreign minister: Egypt will not stand idly by in front of Turkey’s greed in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Al-Masry Al-Youm (online)

Economy

⦿ Amer: Extending initiative for delay of loan installments still undecided, Al-Mal (online)

⦿ Amer: Government, CB endured shock of coronavirus without people feeling it, Al-Wafd (online)

⦿ Amer: EGX needs to introduce new securities, Al-Mal (online)

⦿ Amer: Egypt paid out US$35 bn in debt and to foreign markets during coronavirus crisis, Cairo24 (online)

⦿Amer: Forex reserves sufficient for Egypt's imports for 7 month period, Masrawy (online)

⦿ ‘Life would have stopped,’ Tareq Amer: We only had US$800 mn before exchange rate was liberalized, Al-Mal (online)

⦿ Amer: Setting limits for withdrawals, deposits is a positive step, ‘we want to get rid of cash,’ Al-Mal (online)

⦿ Central Bank of Egypt Governor Tareq Amer: President requested increasing private sector initiative to LE200 bn, Youm7 (online)

⦿ Amer: Income tax amendment not encouraging for investment, we called for exemptions for small companies, Al-Borsa (online)

⦿ CB confirms US$431 bn entered Egyptian economy during Sisi’s presidency, Youm7 (online)

⦿ Amer: Economy needed delicate surgery, Sisi has performed it, Cairo24 (online)

⦿ Amer: Inflation has fallen to 5%, is negative for some commodities, Al-Dostor (online)

⦿ Amer: Chinese Central Bank supported Egypt with $2 bn, Al-Bawaba (online)

⦿ Amer: China most supportive of Egypt in its financial crisis in 2016, Al-Borsa (online)

Trade and industry

⦿ IMEX deposits an offer to buy Nile Cotton Ginning shares at LE50 per share, Al-Borsa (online) 

⦿ Meeting between public business sector minister, Holding Company for Construction, and Heliopolis Housing and Reconstruction Company next week to discuss development plan, Al-Borsa (online)

⦿ ‘Largest container-handling terminal in the region,’ Sisi witnesses agreement to develop Abu Qir port, Al-Mal (online)

⦿ Sisi agrees with DEME, biggest port-building company in Europe, to carry out dredging works for Abu Qir port, Al-Ahram (online)

⦿ Sisi: Abu Qir port to become biggest in the Mediterranean, Al-Watan (online)

⦿ Conflict rages [between leather tanneries and producers] over export of ‘white blue’ [type] leather, Al-Borsa (online)

Energy, environment and natural resources

⦿ Electricity minister to Masrawy: ‘No one who wants electricity will be unable to get it,’ Masrawy (online)

⦿ Results of 1st stage of admission to Advanced Technical School for Nuclear Energy Technology in Dabaa approved, Cairo24 (online)

Politics and governance

⦿ Cars roam streets of Qeft in Qena inviting citizens to participate in Senate elections, Cairo24 (online)

⦿ Large turnout, long queues in front of Senate election polls in Kafr al-Sheikh (photos), Cairo24 (online)

⦿ Amer: Muslim Brotherhood had offered me position of deputy PM, I discovered that they did not anything, Cairo24 (online)

⦿ Ballot boxes close for Senate runoffs, counting begins, Al-Dostor (online)

Agriculture and supply

⦿ Government is building new canal in Toshka, preparing to offer plots, Al-Mal (online)

Labor

⦿ Labor Force Ministry inspects work of committee tasked with detecting drug abuse among workers, Al-Shorouk (online)

⦿ Labor Force Ministry: Establishing coordination council for recruitment offices in Saudi Arabia, Al-Shorouk (online)

Education

⦿ Stationery [industry]: Unprecedented [price] drop for school supplies this year, Al-Shorouk (online)

International

⦿ Emirati FM: Peace agreement with Israel will not be at expense of Palestinian case, Al-Shorouk (online)

⦿ Arab League concludes meeting amid disagreements over condemnation of Emirati normalization, Al-Shorouk (online)

⦿ Palestinian minister condemns Arab League for position on UAE-Israel normalization, Masrawy (online)

⦿ Arab FMs emphasize complete solidarity with Sudan against flooding crisis, Al-Shorouk (online)

⦿ WHO provides medical supplies to Sudan in aftermath of floods, Al-Masry Al-Youm (online)

⦿ Hamdok: Sudan has met all conditions for removing name from terrorism list, Al-Ahram (online)

⦿ Arab FMs express solidarity with Lebanon against Beirut port explosion crisis, Al-Ahram (online)

⦿ Cyprus raises topic of Turkish provocations during southern EU countries summit, Al-Ahram (online)

⦿ Lebanese FM contracts coronavirus, Al-Masry Al-Youm (online)

⦿ Sudanese PM affirms confidence in possibility of reaching solution for GERD issue, Youm7 (online)

⦿ Ethiopia’s Tigray region defies government ban on election, Bloomberg (online)

⦿ First Libyan-Turkish Economic Forum to be held in October, TrendsnAfrica (online)

⦿ How a massive bomb came together in Beirut’s Port, New York Times (online)