On a lackluster evening on the airwaves, the aforementioned proposal to reduce the number of working days for some civil servants seemed to garner the most attention (of course it would).

The Central Agency for Organisation and Administration (CAOA) will complete assessment of the proposal in around five weeks, CAOA head Saleh El Sheikh tells Amr Khalil, who is filling in for Eman El Hosary on Masaa DMC. (watch, runtime: 16:11). El Sheikh and El Watan journalist Maher Hendawi appear very much in favor of the move, with both saying that it would increase productivity and efficiency. Hendawi even says it cut back the state bureaucracy, which is generally overstaffed and underperforming (watch, runtime: 4:44). We repeat: these arguments also point in favor of speeding retirees along or making it easier to fire underperforming workers.

Rassd reporter Salwa Hussein defended her controversial interview with a group of teenagers detained for smuggling goods in Ismailia on Masaa DMC. Hussein had stirred controversy on social media for berating the minors for resorting to illegal work rather than making “an honest living” with a cleaning company for EGP 50 per day. Hussein maintained her interview was within bounds since security personnel and officials from the Social Solidarity Ministry were present and did not object to her line of questioning (watch, runtime: 6:12 and runtime: 6:17).

Naguib Sawiris himself has since offered to provide legal counsel to and hire the teenagers, Ahram Online reports.

Egypt recently hosted engineers from several Nile Basin countries to share their respective country’s expertise with regards to specific projects or industries in a bid to bolster Egypt’s ties with these countries, Irrigation Ministry Spokesman Hossam El Imam told Al Hayah fi Masr’s Kamal Mady (watch, runtime: 7:48).

Hona Al Asema interviewed residents of Sinai’s Bir El Abd, where life is regaining a sense of normalcy as the peninsula’s militant insurgency is being rooted out (watch, runtime: 5:20).

The role of the youth in politics was the main focus of a discussion hosted by Masaa DMC’s Amr Khalil with several young politicians working to expand their presence and open up Egypt’s political scene for youth participation (watch, runtime: 3:17).