At a press conference held by the "Popular Diplomacy" initiative set up by independent politicians to resolve water disputes between Egypt and Ethiopia, opposition leader George Ishaq said the initiative plans to establish a high-level body that will include experts from Ethiopia and Uganda to resolve Egypt's current crisis with Ethiopia over the latter's plans to build a new dam.

Egyptian Irrigation Minister Mohamed Bahaa El-Din has said that the Egyptian government "will not give up on one drop of water," in reference to the growing Egypt-Ethiopia crisis over the plans of the latter to build a new dam.

Cairo Criminal Court on Wednesday released the details of its verdict that sentenced 43 non-governmental organisation (NGO) workers to between one and five years in prison.

Dozens of protesters in front of the High Court building staged a sit-in over the disappearance of journalist and activist Ahmed Douma, who was ordered to be released on bail on Wednesday morning. Protesters demanded the immediate release of Ahmed Douma.

Salafist Nour Party spokesman Nader Bakkar expressed his discontent with opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei after the latter issued an apology to Ethiopia for controversial comments made by Egyptian politicians during a meeting with the president.

A host of unguarded statements made at a meeting between Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and political figures held to discuss the Ethiopia dam 'crisis' have prompted a wave of criticism against Egypt's already-under-fire government decision-makers.

“The trouble was not that the meeting was broadcast on air but rather that some of the participants decided to assume the role of ‘James Bond’ and spoke accordingly, rather than offering a cohesive political proposal on how to move forward with a crisis as crucial as that of a potential cut of Egypt’s share of the river Nile,” commented Amr Hamzawy, political scientist and leader of the Free Egypt party.

A court in Cairo has sentenced 43 people to between one and five years in prison for working for unregistered NGOs in Egypt.

The Shura Council –the upper house of Egypt's parliament, currently endowed with legislative powers – held a closed session on Tuesday to discuss the latest developments regarding Ethiopia's controversial Renaissance Dam project.

Hundreds of Egypt’s ministry of antiquities employees closed the doors of the Egyptian Museum in downtown Cairo's Tahrir Square, barring tourists from entering as they voice demands for better benefits.

Opposition figures from across Egypt's political spectrum on Monday asserted that Ethiopia's controversial Renaissance Dam project constituted a potential "crisis" for Egypt.

A Cairo criminal court has ordered the release pending investigation of Mubarak-era housing minister Ahmed El-Maghrabi on Monday, overruling an appeal filed by prosecutors requesting his continued detention.

Egypt’s prosecutor-general on Monday ordered the suspension of a five-year prison sentence handed down to prominent Emirati businessman Hussein Sejwani, owner of Dubai-based developer DAMAC, Al-Ahram's Arabic-language news website reported on Sunday.

The Egyptian presidency on Monday published a summary of a final report issued over the weekend by a tripartite commission – including Egyptian, Sudanese and Ethiopian representatives – tasked with studying the potential impact on downstream states of Ethiopia's controversial Renaissance Dam project.

Hundreds rallied outside the High Court building Monday evening condemning the amendments to the Judiciary Law currently under review by the Shura Council.

Egypt's High Constitutional Court has ruled unconstitutional a law governing elections for the Shura Council, the upper house of parliament. The ruling on Sunday made it clear that the Council would not be dissolved until a new House of Representatives, the lower house of parliament, convenes. According to Article 230 of the constitution the council is immune from dissolution until a lower house is elected. The constitution also gives the upper house temporary authority to pass legislation after a similar court order caused the dissolution of Egypt's People's Assembly in June 2012.

The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) issued a joint statement with El-Nadeem Center for Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence on Sunday demanding the release of a 19 year-old protestor from a psychiatric hospital.

The Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) has stated that the court ruling on the Shura Council has 'no practical effect,' following Sunday's verdict by Egypt's High Constitutional Court (HCC) that declared the laws which governed the elections to the Council – parliament's upper house – unconstitutional.

Customs workers are planning to hold simultaneous protests in their various places of work on Tuesday to push for change in the Customs Authority management.

The government’s proposed NGO law is “potentially constraining”, said High Representative of the EU’s Union for Foreign Affairs Security Policy and Vice President of the Commission Catherine Ashton, according to a statement issued by her office on Sunday.

Egyptian authorities closed all roads leading to the Ministry of Interior on Saturday, following protests near the ministry's headquarters that demand the release of all political prisoners.