(MENAFN - Daily News Egypt) State media focused on President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi€™s visit on Saturday to Addis Ababa to participate in the 30th Ordinary Session of the African Union Summit. Both leaders of the two main state-run dailies addressed the role of Egypt in Africa. On a different note, this day commemorates 28 January seven years ago, a turning point in the 2011 revolution. Journalist Ayman Sayyad picked up the topic in Al-Shorouk newspaper. In a sarcastic piece, Hossam Sokkary, former head of BBC Arabic, wrote that Al-Sisi could compete against himself by presenting two different programmes to solve the issue of absence of plurality.

Source: Daily News Egypt January 29, 2018 14:15 UTC