Egypt's economic growth is set to accelerate in the next two years, reaching 5.5 percent in fiscal 2016/17, a Reuters poll forecast on Wednesday.

Canada and Egypt enjoy strong bilateral relations built on a mutual interest in peace, stability and prosperity. Canada will continue to promote collaboration in different sectors of the Egyptian economy,” Canadian Ambassador to Egypt Troy Lulashnyk stated during his visit to the Canadian Commercial Chamber in Egypt Monday April 27.

Egyptian photographer Mohamed Galal was found beheaded in Libya Monday, after a year after his disappearance, Youm7 reported.

The Supreme Administrative Court ruled on Tuesday that public servants refusing to work would be dismissed, but would still receive their pensions, asserting that Islamic Sharia does not permit such behavior if proven detrimental to citizens.

The Egyptian Social Democratic Party responded to criticism from the April 6 Youth Movement, calling on liberal revolutionary groups to set aside their differences and work together.

A prominent Egyptian court has issued a verdict criminalising sit-ins by employees at public municipalities where workers are banned by law from engaging in strike action.

Two ancient tombs belonging to the priest of King Khufu and his son were opened to the public in Giza Pyramids Plateau on Monday 27/4/2015 after the end of maintenance works.

A leading figure in the Hamas Islamist movement has unveiled Saudi endeavors aimed at achieving political reconciliation between Turkey, Qatar and Egypt.

Egypt is in “wise, patriotic hands,” but Egyptians must back their president because no leader can make fateful decisions without popular support, former President Hosni Mubarak told Sada el-Balad channel Sunday.

The Egyptian economy is “one of the best in the Middle East,” Abdullah Rashid al-Mara, the Corporations and Investment Funds Director at Qatar Central Bank (QCB), on the side lines of the Qatari participation in the “Arab Banking Conference” in Cairo, April 27-28.

Holding parliamentary elections before the holy month of Ramadan, to begin in late June, is “impossible,” President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi told reporters Monday.

Egypt's Irrigation Minister Hossam Moghazi will attend Monday the opening of the three-day Africa Climate Resilient Infrastructure Summit, which is partly organised by the African Union Commission, in Ethiopia's Addis Ababa, state news agency MENA reported.

A draft law to combat illegal immigration would punish offenders with prison terms of 10-20 years and hard labor, Youm7 reported.

Although multiple arson attacks on public property have been claimed by terrorist organizations over the past few months, numerous other fires have been caused by faulty electrical wiring in various governorates.

An Egyptian delegation from the civil aviation authority left Cairo for the Qatari capital Doha on Sunday, in the first official visit since the withdrawal of Egypt's ambassador from the Gulf emirate.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi extended the state of emergency in place in parts of North Sinai for three months, the presidency said on Saturday.

An underground metro train hit a platform inside a station in Cairo's Abbasiya neighbourhood on Sunday leaving the driver with injuries, a police official said.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi ratified on Thursday a $500 million loan agreement with the World Bank to fund the national natural gas project in order to benefit 1.5 million households who currently rely on older means of gas consumption.

Egypt's central bank kept its benchmark interest rates unchanged at a monetary policy committee meeting on Thursday.

The government has so far paid 572 million EGP ($74 million) in compensation to Rafah residents displaced under the established buffer zone, said North Sinai Governor Abdel Fatah Harhour during a Thursday news conference.

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has saluted the sacrifices and efforts of the armed forces in the Sinai Peninsula ahead of the commemoration of the 33rd annual Sinai Liberation Day.