President Abdel Fattah El Sisi’s attendance of a two-day peace conference on Libya in Italy was the main topic of interest on the airwaves last night. We have the full story in Diplomacy + Foreign Trade, below.

The president will be pushing for a political solution to Libya’s civil war that would unite rival factions, Ittihadiya spokesman Bassam Rady told Masaa DMC. Rady also stressed no political resolution will be possible without the active involvement of the Egypt-backed Libyan military (watch, runtime: 2:41). El Hekaya’s Amr Adib prayed out loud for the conference to be fruitful, saying that Libya’s stability has a direct impact on Egypt’s (watch, runtime: 4:57).

Libyan factions are keen on reaching a political situation, but meddling by regional and foreign powers with “agendas” has been stalling progress, Libyan political analyst Abdel Hakim Matouk said (watch, runtime: 4:10).

Public Enterprises Minister Hisham Tawfik broke down the forthcoming amendments to the Public Enterprises Act for Hona Al Asema. Among the most significant bits of the law seeing a change are clauses pertaining to proportional representation for shareholders in public sector companies and new stipulations that would require state-owned companies to release bi-annual earnings reports to promote transparency. Under the new amendments, a company that loses its entire capital would either be liquidated or merged with another company that is faring better, according to Tawfik. The Madbouly cabinet’s economic group discussed the amendments during a meeting yesterday, according to an official statement. The changes will make their way through the full Cabinet, Council of State, and House of Representatives before coming into effect (watch, runtime: 8:55).

House Speaker Ali Abdel Aal lambasted the level of corruption in the country’s municipalities, saying during yesterday’s parliamentary session that governors have been uncooperative and unresponsive to MP requests, according to parliament spokesman Salah Hasaballah. Local Development Ministry spokesman Khaled Qassem phoned in to note that the minister himself met yesterday with MPs and discussed their questions and concerns (watch, runtime: 9:46). Hasaballah, in turn, said that ministers have been cooperative with parliament and are “keen” on responding to MPs’ briefing requests (watch, runtime: 1:06).

Easing penalties and restrictions imposed on NGOs should be key features of an amended NGOs Act, National Council of Human Rights member Hafez Abu Saeda and General Federation of NGOs Chairman Talaat Abdel Kawi said on Al Hayah Al Youm. Abu Saeda also suggested that the clauses on foreign funding should be relaxed and that, as long as the funds are monitored, they should not be banned altogether (watch, runtime: 1:42).

Mo Salah is a class act, part 937: The sculptor behind the bizarre Mo Salah statue unveiled at the World Youth Forum was apparently contacted by the footballer himself to applaud her work, she told El Hekaya’s Amr Adib (watch, runtime: 1:45).