Reuters spotlights population control program: “Two is Enough,” the population control program run by the Social Solidarity Ministry is the focus of an in-depth feature by Reuters. The program aims to reduce the birth rate from 3.5 children per woman to 2.4 by 2030. Egypt’s population is projected to reach 100 mn by 2020, a huge number of people given water and job scarcity.

Other headlines worth noting in brief include:

• The constitutional amendments amount to a constitutional coup, writes former Egyptian diplomat and Dartmouth professor Ezzedine C. Fishere, in The Washington Post.
• The Alexandria-Cape Town road is a mega project meant to help achieve sustainable development in Africa, writes Ahmed Elleithy in Al-Monitor.