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Thursday, 22 February 2018

Other international coverage

It’s all miscellany on a blissfully quiet news day for Egypt in the international press. Among the highlights and lowlights:

“The [recently enacted] bankruptcy law improves the safe legislative environment for investors. But the Egyptian government still has to get rid of the bureaucratic measures that have become entrenched in the administrative structure of the state,” Rep. Bassant Fahmy tells Al-Monitor.

The battle to get more women on the bench is one that has been waged for 70 years with very little to show in the way of results, writes Sonia Farid in Al Arabiya.

The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned about the detention and subsequent disappearance of Egyptian journalist Moataz Wadnan.

FIFA.com profiled Egyptian footballer Ahmed Elmohamady, who says the last five minutes in Egypt’s qualifier against Congo were “the most difficult five minutes” of his career.

“It’s criminal to go to Cairo and not see the Giza pyramids,” Francis Tapon writes in Forbes, also urging visitors to Egypt to explore beyond just the Giza pyramids.

British police have dropped their investigation into how citizen Laura Plummer obtained the meds that landed her in an Egyptian prison, citing “insufficient evidence,” The Sun reports.

UNHCR highlights the efforts made to educate the 52,000 refugee children in Egypt through a profile in on the Thomson Reuters Foundation website of Nousa Sleiman, a Sudanese refugee pursuing her education in Egypt.

Egyptian-born film student Amr Moustafa’s film ‘When We Listen’ is being featured at the Central Alberta Film Festival, Sylvan Lakes News report.

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