Other coverage of Egypt in the international press
Other international coverage of Egypt worth skimming this morning:
- Coming from the Associated Press is a piece on how the brotherly love between Egypt and Kuwait is not reflected in the treatment of Egyptian expats living in the GCC county.
- As Nigeria devalues its currency 20%, analysts speaking to the Financial Times’ Maggie Fick and David Pilling doubt that country will follow the path of Egypt and adopt a full float of the Naira.
- Former CIA agent Sabrina de Sousa lost her final appeal against extradition to Italy, where she and a team of CIA operatives were convicted for kidnapping terror suspect Osama Nasr and sending him to a CIA black site in Egypt under the extraordinary rendition program, Fox News reports. Nasr has accused of Egyptian authorities of torturing him. The story is also making headlines in the Wall Street Journal
- Middle East Monitor looks into how the Arab League’s 22 states not paying their dues is bringing financial turmoil to the organization that risks it leaving Cairo.
- French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen refused to wear a headscarf to meet with Lebanon’s grand mufti and so the meeting was canceled. She told reporters there she was not forced to wear one when she met with Sheikh Al Azhar in 2015.
- Egypt’s Essam El Hadary made Uganda’s goalie Denis Onyango a happy man by giving him his football jersey. Onyango posed with the jersey and called it a “special gift from a special person.”