Bright Star, Rabaa anniversary dominate international coverage of Egypt on a very slow news day: US tabloid Foreign Policy has caught onto the comeback of Bright Star in a piece headlined “With Obama Gone, Trump Pentagon Resumes Major Egyptian War Game” on a morning in which no single story dominates the narrative on Egypt.

Yesterday’s anniversary of the dispersal of Rabaa passed with little attention in the international press. The usual suspects joined the party (Turkey’s Anadolu, TRT World and Al Jazeera, with the latter focusing on the extension of the detention of one of its journalist in Egypt). Human Rights Watch also picked up the case of the Jazeera journalist, and Amnesty International noted that “not a single person has been held to account for the events on 14 August 2013.”

The Egyptian economy is getting some hate from the Nigerian press (of all places) this morning. Egypt’s macro picture and public finances are currently worse than Nigeria, according to Nigeria’s Proshare, the retail investor ‘platform.’ On reserves and the bond market, “[Nigeria] can claim the same achievements without borrowing from the IMF.” The piece says that Egypt’s reform program cannot be judged until a foreign direct investment inflows improve, and the impact of the social safety net are revealed. This from a country in denial about the benefits of devaluation despite almost unanimous advice (even from the writers of the second season of Showtime’s Bns).

Also worth a brief note:

• Researcher Giuseppe Acconcia talked to Mona Abaza about his experience in Egypt with journalism in times of uprisings for Open Democracy.
• Chinese news agency Xinhua reports that trade volume between Egypt and China reached USD 5.178 bn in 1H2017. Chinese imports from Egypt increased 298.37% y-o-y to USD 660 mn.
• Reuters takes an interest in an Alexandria-native who irons clothes with her feet to make a living. There are no words.