On a very quiet news morning for Egypt dominated largely by pickups of the Associated Press’ report on the Nile turning muddy, relations between Egypt and Saudi Arabia are squarely in the spotlight.

The New York Times’ Nour Youssef and Diaa Hadid are saying that Egypt is “jousting” with Saudi Arabia as “the fraying of the alliance between the two most influential Sunni nations is unfolding amid increasing sectarianism across the region. And the potential loss of Saudi support could hardly come at a worse moment for Egypt.” The International Crisis Group’s North Africa project director Issandr El Amrani describes, rather glibly, the relationship as one “based on a kind of asymmetric passive-aggressive perpetual renegotiation. What Egypt is saying, in effect, is: ‘I am an unreliable, disrespectful client that openly takes you for granted and jibes against you at every possible turn, but I know you will eventually come back to me because you are more afraid of my weakness and nuisance capacity than of my potential strength. So when is that next check coming?’”

…Meanwhile, Mada Masr’s Omar Said attempted to retrace how we got to this point. He links it to disagreements over involvement in Syria and Yemen, with Egypt agreeing to training Iraqi security forces in Egypt, meeting with Iranian officials, and the failed attempts to form a joint Arab military force in 2015, amongst a number of issues. Said quotes a number of source who, while they agree there is a rift currently, do not see the situation as having reached “crisis” levels.

Elsewhere this morning: Media in Singapore are eating up news of Pacific International Lines (PIL)’s opening of a 20,000 square meter inland logistics facility in Cairo. The story gets a sentence in a Wall Street Journal roundup of logistics news, too.