An Egyptian court on Wednesday sentenced ousted president Hosni Mubarak to three years in prison on charges of stealing public funds.

Egypt's former military chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is expected to romp home in this month's presidential election, but his challenge will be fighting poverty and rebuilding the shattered economy.

In his campaign platform, presidential candidate and former defense minister Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi seeks to bolster the fishing industry by developing a new vision for the Nile, creating a natural pasture for fisheries along the shorelines of the Mediterranean and Red Seas.

The platform of the former defence minister Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, released Tuesday on his official website, includes a set of mechanisms intended to solve the energy crisis plaguing Egypt. Most notably the platform seeks to diversify sources of energy rather than rely on natural gas and petroleum products.

The vision put forward by Field Marshal Abdel Fattah Sisi’s electoral platform aims to develop a new administrative map and investment map for the governorates in order to “realise the Egyptian dream on 100% of Egyptian land”.

Presidential candidate Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s platform stated that he will target a 7% growth in GDP and a decrease in the unemployment rate to 8% by the fiscal year (FY) 2017/2018.

Three riot police officers trying to break up a student protest against Egypt’s military-backed government were killed in a drive-by shooting in Cairo on Tuesday as early results from expatriate voters confirmed that the military’s former leader, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, was headed for a big victory in next week’s presidential election.

Presidential hopeful Hamdeen Sabahi has warned of a revolt by the Egyptian people should their new president disregard their demands.

Former head of the Arab League Amr Moussa denied on Monday previous reports quoting him as saying, "Hamas must recognise Israel if the Palestinians are to move forward with their hopes in establishing their own state."

A student was injured on Monday when a homemade bomb exploded in Ain Shams University's campus in eastern Cairo during a demonstration by student supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi.

The presidential elections campaign of former army chief Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi released what it said were early results from Egypt's expat vote, which took place between Thursday and Monday.

The European Union (EU) said on Monday it would monitor all of Egypt's presidential election, reversing a decision to scale back its operations after authorities agreed to release a load of impounded equipment.

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has warned Egypt that its transition to democracy after years of political turmoil is faltering ahead of presidential elections later this month.

A bomb in Cairo wounded at least three people at an election event in support of Egyptian presidential frontrunner and former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, state-run newspaper Al-Ahram and security sources said on Saturday.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy met Sunday with a delegation of Syrian opposition figures, including the former president of the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces Moaz Al-Khatib, National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change member Afref Dalila, and artist Jamal Suleiman.

Egypt's Presidential Elections Commission (PEC) said on Sunday that a delegation from the European Union (EU) will be observing its upcoming presidential race.

Egypt's liberal Free Egyptians Party (FEP), owned by business tycoon Naguib Sawiris, announced on Sunday that 31 members of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party (ESDP) have joined their party.

Egyptian expatriates began lining up Thursday at polling places in more than 100 countries to cast ballots in four days of voting for Egypt's coming presidential election.

Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the general who ousted an elected Islamist president and is set to become Egypt's next head of state, called on the US to help fight jihadi terrorism to avoid the creation of new Afghanistans in the Middle East.

Celebrating the 50th anniversary on the building of the Aswan High Dam, Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab attended late Wednesday a ceremony at the Cairo Opera House along with a number of officials.

An airplane carrying a large poster of Egyptian presidential hopeful and former army chief Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi took off from Cairo Airport on Thursday as part of his campaign.