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Tuesday, 9 July 2019

The AU summit was the talk of the night on Egypt’s airwaves

It was yet another night of intense focus on African diplomacy on the airwaves last night as the African Union’s extraordinary summit wrapped up in Niger yesterday.

Al Hayah Al Youm’s Lobna Assal took note of the summit’s closing ceremony, during which President Abdel Fattah El Sisi delivered a speech (watch, runtime: 5:03). The summit will be regarded as “one of the most important” as it saw the launch of the AfCFTA and a unified view to complete all projects under the AU’s development agenda, El Sisi said. Masaa DMC’s Eman El Hosary, meanwhile, set her gaze on the president’s chairing of a mini-summit between AU leaders and representatives of African economic blocs (watch, runtime: 2:09). We have more on this in Diplomacy + Foreign Trade, below.

El Hekaya’s Amr Adib took note of Alhokair Group’s Marakez for Real Estate Investment’s mall in Mansoura. The mall will be the largest in Nile Delta city, built over 47 feddans and at a cost of EGP 1.4 bn (watch, runtime: 5:06).

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