While millions of Egyptians mark the national holiday of Sham El-Nessim, one of the few celebrations that bring both Muslim and Coptic Christians together, very few realize that it is a celebration linked directly to ancient Egypt.

Cairo Governor Galal Saeed said 40 solar-powered lampposts have been placed in Matareya Square, a solution that will later be applied in other Cairo squares, if it proves to be successful.

Egypt's agriculture minister Salah El-Din Helal on Monday made a surprise visit to several public gardens around Cairo, where Egyptians are celebrating Sham El-Nessim, a national holiday that marks the beginning of spring.

Taha al-Sharidy, head of the Matareya Fishermen Union, said on Sunday evening that a Sudanese court sentenced 106 Egyptian fishermen to six months in prison, confiscated three boats and imposed a fine of five thousand Sudanese pounds on each of them, for violating international fishing laws and entering Sudanese territorial waters without permit.

President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi Thursday delegated Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab to lead an official Egyptian delegation to attend the Bandung Conference in Indonesia by the end of April, Youm7 reported.

The United States said on Wednesday it was considering a $57 million sale of air-to-surface missiles toEgypt, the second big arms deal this week after Congress was notified of a potential $1 billion sale of helicopters and missiles to Pakistan.

Water Resources and Irrigation Minister Hossam Moghazy said that the Egyptian delegation participating in the Ethiopian Grand Renaissance Dam negotiations is making every effort to defend the country’s interests.

Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab has rejected claims the state is promoting candidates or groups ahead of the upcoming parliamentary election.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has appointed a new head of the country's key government financial watchdog agency, the Administrative Control Authority (ACA), a statement from the president's office said.

Egypt's top prosecutor referred two Homeland Security police officers accused of torturing a lawyer, to criminal court on Wednesday, a statement said.

Egypt's Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat referred 379 defendants described as "members of the Muslim Brotherhood" to criminal court on Wednesday, a statement from his office said.

Egypt’s military ranked 18th among world forces and the first among Arab forces, according to a ranking made by Global Firepower, an independent website focused on comparison of military powers around the world.

Egypt’s Ministry of Finance approved Tuesday evening a number of amendments to the executive regulations of the income-tax law to accommodate recently introduced capital-market taxes.

Two adults and a child were injured on Monday when an improvised explosive device detonated in Upper Egypt's Aswan governorate near a security forces camp.

The April 6 youth movement and the April 6 democratic front political groups resorted to holding a conference on Monday in the desert after the event was refused by "all" potential venues, a leading member of one group said.

The Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development plans to lend Egypt $1.5 billion over the next five years, extending $300 million each year, the fund's director-general Abdulwahab al-Bader told Reuters on Tuesday.

An unemployed man killed his mother on Tuesday in Damat village, Gharbiya governorate, after she refused to give him money to buy drugs.

A consultant office to technically supervise the construction of the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is expected to be selected during a visit by Egyptian Minister of Irrigation Hossam Moghazy to Addis Ababa this week.

A decision to build a youth center in Agouza Park was canceled after residents of the Cairo district submitted complaints about the project, according to a Tuesday statement by Giza governor Khaled al-Adly.

Mohamed Ali al-Houthi, president of Yemen's Revolutionary Council, has said that remarks by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, after his meeting with the Supreme Council of Armed Forces on Saturday, were ‘positive’, appreciating Sisi’s call for political dialogue in Yemen. He also hoped for more support in this regard, away from military action.

The first stage of Egypt's parliamentary elections could begin before the middle of June, Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Transitional Justice ‎Ibrahim El-Heneidy ‎said on Monday.