President Abdel Fattah El Sisi’s visit to Niger dominated the nation’s airwaves for the second consecutive night. El Sisi chaired yesterday the African Union’s (AU) extraordinary summit, which saw the launch of the African Continental Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement. We have the full story in Speed Round, below.

El Sisi’s speech in the summit’s opening ceremony got some airtime on Al Hayah Al Youm. Host Khaled Abou Bakr also highlighted AU Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki’s comment that “AfCFTA was an old dream of the founding fathers of the Organization of African Union (OAU),” among them former President Gamal Abdel-Nasser. Abou Bakr then phoned the OAU’s former assistant to the secretary general Ahmed Haggag for his two cents (watch, runtime: 5:37).

The details of the AfCFTA agreement were the main point of focus for Hona Al Asema’s Reham Ibrahim in her coverage of the summit (watch, runtime: 1:31).

And for your daily dose of miscellany, Sergio Ramos was in Hurghada: Spanish footballer Sergio Ramos left Hurghada on Sunday after a five-day family retreat at the Red Sea resort town, Al Hayah Al Youm noted. Ramos is “deeply grateful” for the hospitality and generosity he experienced during the visit, going as far as to call the trip “one of the best trips ever” in a Facebook post (watch, runtime: 4:19). Remember when an Egyptian lawyer wanted to make Ramos pay EUR 1 bn for injuring Mo Salah and damaging our collective psyche last year? Maybe we can blame him for our Afcon misfortunes, too.