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Wednesday, 1 March 2017

Other coverage of Egypt in the international press

Other international press coverage of Egypt worth noting:

  • Skift took note of the AP’s piece on Egypt’s efforts to revive Russian tourism with airport upgrades. Skift’s Patrick Whyte says: “The market has been decimated by geo-political problems and needs big changes if it is to start to recover.”
  • Doaa Farid took note of UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson’s networking event with Egyptian startups and entrepreneurs at the British Embassy in Cairo. “Today is an important day because it is the first visit of a British foreign minister to Cairo since 2014,” UK ambassador John Casson told Wamda. So important.
  • Egypt is a top foreign buyers of Chinese drones, according to a Reuters report. The report says China says it has received its largest foreign drone order from an unnamed buyer.
  • Egypt’s Ahmed El Mohamady is Hull City’s most famous player, ranked by the number of Twitter followers, Hull Daily Mail says.

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