The public–sector owned National Company for Construction and Development, NCCD, is competing to execute infrastructural projects in Ethiopia and the Nile Basin countries in the upcoming period, said Safwan al-Selmy, the board chairman of the NCCD, Mubasher reported Sunday.

Egypt is facing a "critical moment" in its transition to democracy, US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday as he arrived in Cairo on a surprise trip.

Saudi Arabia's Almarai, the Gulf's biggest dairy company, and U.S. soft drinks giant PepsiCo will invest about $345 million in Egypt over the next five years, the Saudi firm said on Sunday.

Egypt’s permanent representative to the United Nations in Geneva condemned all human rights violation in the Syrian conflict, highlighting the need to end violence especially against civilians.

The Netherlands’ New Egypt Investment Fund BV is increasing its issued capital by $230m, commensurate with its new investments, according to a tender offer published on Saturday.

A Cairo appeals court on Sunday acquitted 64 non-Islamist protesters on charges of illegal assembly and rioting. The defendants – 68 in total – were previously sentenced to two years in prison and had appealed the ruling.

Egypt has agreed to revise the price it pays to buy natural gas to be extracted by German oil and gas group RWE DEA, a move likely to mean higher prices for the state.

Egyptian Antiquities Sector head Al-Athary Aly al-Asfar denied Wednesday evening the clais of media reports that a rare Tutankhamun statue at Karnak temple was unintentionally damaged.

Former President Hosni Mubarak fell at 8am on Wednesday for the fourth time in recent days inside his room's bathroom in the Maadi military hospital.

The Arab Peoples and Parliaments Organization on Thursday welcomed the invitation of Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz to hold a conference of donors to support Egypt.

The total number of Egyptian governorates is expected to reach 32, Minister of State for Local Development Adel Labib announced in a press conference Wednesday.

An Egyptian misdemeanor court sentenced two people to six months in prison with labor on Wednesday for two separate sexual harassment incidents.

Egypt's Minister of Foreign Affairs will head to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on Wednesday to participate in the 41st session of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation meeting for Foreign Ministers.

The Cairo Criminal Court postponed on Wednesday the retrial of former president Hosni Mubarak, his interior minister Habib al-Adly and six former security officials over charges of murdering protesters during the 2011 uprising to 6 July.

Zaazou, 59, continues in his post as tourism minister. He is a political independent who was appointed tourism minister in August 2012. He was previously assistant to former tourism minister Mounir Fakhry Abdel-Nour.

After being held 11 months in detention, Al-Jazeera journalist Abdullah El-Shamy was released on Tuesday night, along with 12 others.

On Tuesday, President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi gave instructions to monitor human rights violations, said Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb.

The African Union's Peace and Security Council has unanimously agreed to unfreeze Egypt's membership to the AU, state news agency MENA reported on Tuesday.

Administrative court headed by Judge Mohamed Qeshta allowed lawyer Khaled Ali to appeal articles number 8 and 10 of the protest law in front of the constitutional court Tuesday.

Outgoing Minister of Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim spent his second-last day in office Sunday touring the Giza Pyramids, and stressed their further development as a key to developing tourism.

The Administrative Court set 31 August to issue a ruling in a lawsuit to lift the ban on former National Democratic Party leaders running for parliamentary elections.