A political alliance loyal to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has scooped all 60 list seats up for grabs in the first round of a parliamentary election in which opposition parties were all but absent, official results showed on Wednesday.

Turnout in the first round of Egypt's parliamentary election was 26.56 percent, the election commission said on Wednesday, confirming estimates of low participation among Egyptians disillusioned with the turbulent political transition.

The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) kept the pound steady at 7.93 per dollar in a foreign exchange (FX) auction on Thursday, unchanged from Tuesday’s sale.

A statement issued by the Giza security directorate to Aswat Masriya confirmed that Egypt's Homeland Security police had arrested Wednesday the foundation's chairman Hesham Gaafar, without mentioning the reason for his arrest.

President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi appointed Tarek Amer as governor of Central Bank of Egypt (CBE), succeeding Hisham Ramez who resigned Wednesday, after nearly two years and eight months in the job. Amer is supposed to hold this position for four years, effective from 27 November 2015 to 27 November 2019.

Egypt's central bank governor Hisham Ramez will not renew his term when it expires in November and will be replaced by senior banker Tarek Amer, the presidency said in a statement on Wednesday.

Egypt’s first solar-powered underground water pumping station will be inaugurated Thursday, Al Ahram reported.

Egypt’s overall budget deficit widened to 2.4 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) reaching LE 68.3 billion for July-August 2015, compared to 2.3 percent (LE 56 billion) during the same period last year, according to a report by the Finance Ministry.

The total number of Egyptian expatriates who voted in the first phase of legislative elections was 30,531 in 139 embassies and consulates across the world, said Ayman Abbas, head of the Supreme Elections Committee (SEC) Tuesday.

The first round of parliamentary elections witnessed 44 cases of violation against journalists, according to Journalists Against Torture Observatory’s report released on Tuesday.

If you're wondering whether you just ran into a Morgan Freeman lookalike in Khan El-Khalili, wonder no more. The Hollywood superstar is actually in town to film a new documentary series called "The Story of God" and you're very likely to run into him in one of Cairo's many tourist attractions.

Results of voting inside Egypt in the first phase of legislative elections will be announced Wednesday, said Omar Marwan, official spokesman of the Supreme Elections Commission (SEC) Monday night.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi met with Sergey Kirienko, director of the Russian government-run nuclear energy corporation Rosatom, on Monday, during which they discussed an offer by the corporation to construct Egypt’s long-awaited electricity-generating nuclear plant.

There were only minor clashes in different cities on the second day of the parliamentary elections, the Ministry of Interior reported Tuesday. There were no dangers that might have stopped voters from reaching their polling stations.

A microbus full of veiled senior women in the quiet streets of Giza approaches an electoral polling station at Nasr Al-Din Primary School and parks, where the young driver can be heard instructing “choose ‘For the Love of Egypt’; you have two voting cards”.

The Ministry of Local and Administrative Development will collect fines of non-voters if necessary, the minister said on Monday, the second day of the first stage in the parliamentary elections.

The voter turnout for the first day of elections for the 568-seat House of Representatives on Sunday stood between 15-16 percent, according to Prime Minister Sherif Ismail.

Egypt will delay its second international bond issuance, which was initially planned for November, the finance minister said on the sidelines of a conference on Monday.

In a comic twist, away from the frenzied debates between the boycotting and voting camps, Egypt's virtual activists started an #instead_of_voting hashtag, where users made hilarious suggestions on what to do instead of going to the polls to mark the first of two days of voting for Egypt's next parliament.

As the second day of the parliamentary elections was beginning, the Interior Ministry reported a minor exchange of fire Sunday night near polling stations in Giza and Sohag, stating that the violence is not related to the elections.

A total of 46 polling stations in Minya are being merged into nearby stations due to judges’ tardiness, the High Elections Committee (HEC) branch in the Upper Egyptian governorate decided Sunday.