Topping coverage of Egypt in the foreign press this morning: A 13-year-old boyhas released a video publicly asking for President Donald Trump to help secure the release of his mother, a dual US-Egyptian national detained last month upon arrival in Egypt for a visit, CNN reports.

Other headlines worth a moment of your time:

• Activists slam human rights conference in Egypt: The UN decision to hold this year’s regional conference on defining and criminalizing torture in Egypt with the government’s National Council for Human Rights has drawn criticism from local human rights activists, Reuters reports.
• Egypt is suffering from a shortage of healthcare professionals: The country’s health sector "at risk of failing” as Egyptians are attracted to the more favorable working conditions abroad, says the Arab Weekly.
• Salafi preacher to give sermons, raises a few eyebrows: Moderate Muslims in Egypt have “reacted with alarm” after authorities allowed a Salafist fundamentalist to give sermons at a mosque in Alexandria, says the Arab Weekly.
• There is “excessive sensitivity in Egypt to any word of criticism against the homeland,” an Egyptian journalist wrote recently in Al Masry Al Youm. Extracts from her column have been picked up by the Middle East Media Research Institute.