President Abdel Fattah El Sisi was front and center on the airwaves last night. Masaa DMC took note of the president’s meeting with Japan's Mitsubishi Corporation CEO Takehiko Kakiuchi on the sidelines of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (Ticad), which we cover in detail in this morning’s Speed Round, below (watch, runtime: 0:31).

More meetings in Japan: The program also aired a report of El Sisi’s separate meeting with Natsuo Yamaguchi, president of Japan’s Komeito party, a partner of the country’s ruling coalition government (watch, runtime: 0:59). The two discussed bilateral cooperation, with a focus on education.

El Sisi’s two-day stop in Kuwait, which we note in What We’re Tracking Today, above, also earned airtime on Hona Al Asema (watch, runtime: 1:40).

North Coast businesses skirting VAT? On a separate note, the Tax Authority paid a few visits to businesses operating in North Coast resorts and found that hundreds of retail and coffee shops are not registered as value-added taxpayers, Hona Al Asema’s Reham Ibrahim pointed out (watch, runtime: 1:17).