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Monday, 3 February 2020

Last night’s talk shows for Monday 3 February 2020

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) was a major talking point on the airwaves again last night. Al Kahera Al Aan’s Lamees El Hadidi gave a rundown on sticking points Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia finally agreed on over the weekend following four days of meetings in Washington (watch, runtime: 4:00). We had the full story in yesterday's issue.

Ethiopia’s “intransigence” prevented a final agreement from materializing last week, but the preliminary points of agreement are in line with what Egypt has been calling for, Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies advisor Hani Raslan told El Hadidi (watch, runtime: 9:12).

The IMF is happy with Egypt’s macroeconomic indicators thanks to the government’s reform program, Al Hadath TV’s Washington correspondent, Pierre Ghanem, told El Hadidi (watch, runtime: 2:24).

Bringing home Egyptians from Wuhan: Al Hayah Al Youm’s Lobna Assal (watch, runtime: 6:17), Masaa DMC’s Eman El Hosary (watch, runtime: 6:01), and El Hadidi (watch, runtime: 8:29) all phoned Cabinet spokesman Nader Saad for a follow up on the ongoing evacuation of Egyptian expats in China’s Wuhan to protect them from the coronavirus outbreak. The plane carrying the Egyptians has taken off from the Chinese city, and was on its way back to Matrouh as of dispatch time.

Commodity prices are falling: The sustained EGP appreciation against the greenback have caused commodity prices to lose up to 20%, reaching a point where consumers are actually starting to feel it, the supply minister’s assistant for internal trade affairs, Ayman Hossam, tells Assal (watch, runtime: 5:13).

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