The Egyptian pound fell to an unprecedented low on the black market on Monday, five traders said, as hard currency demand rises in the dollar-starved economy.

Prime Minister Sherif Ismail has asked for support from members of the House of Representatives as he presents the government’s proposed action plan for the coming period before MPs on Sunday.

Egypt is targeting an economic growth rate of 5-6 percent by the end of the 2017/18 fiscal year, and north of six percent in the following years, Prime Minister Sherif Ismail told Egypt’s parliament Sunday while unveiling an ambitious three-year plan.

A counterfeit antiquities trafficker remanded into custody in Minya died of low blood pressure on Saturday, security in the Upper Egyptian province said.

Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris said on Sunday his bid to acquire CI Capital, the investment arm of Egypt’s largest listed bank, was being held up by national security concerns and criticised state meddling in business that he said would put off investors.

Prime Minister Sherif Ismail and Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong will sign on Sunday five agreements related to education and scientific research in the two countries.

The board of the Egyptian Football Association (EFA) and the board of Al-Ahly Sporting Club were dissolved Sunday per rulings of the Supreme Administrative Court, Youm7 reported.

Over the past few years the Sahel/Sahara region has become a field of conflicts and source of multiple threats due to interwoven causes in which numerous factors operated. Prime among these is the wave of terrorism that threatens all societies and states without exception or discrimination.

President of the Supreme Judicial Council Ahmed Gamal Eddin said in a statement of Tuesday that he does not object to the appointment of female judges, rejecting claims of intentional discrimination against women within the Egyptian judicial system.

A senior official at the Egyptian Antiquities Ministry ordered the removal of a monolith from a 2,300 year old shrine located on Aswan’s Elephantine Island for having two Stars of David carved into it, Youm7 reported Thursday.

The North Cairo Criminal Court upheld the decision to release anti-torture T-shirt detainee Mahmoud Mohamed Hussein during Thursday’s session, his brother Tarek ‘Tito’ confirmed to Daily News Egypt.

Egypt's Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Magdi El-‎Agati said on Tuesday that a new government-drafted ‎NGO law will soon be submitted to parliament.‎ In a Tuesday meeting with Patrizianna Sparacino-Thiellay, the ‎French ambassador-at-large for human rights‎, El-‎Agati indicated that several laws will be ‎redrafted in the coming period to go in line with ‎Egypt's new constitution.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi initiated on Tuesday an open dialogue with more than 20 intellectual figures to discuss various issues of national concern, according to a statement by the presidency.

Sad news hit the families of two young detainees who have spent over two years in jail without trial, after the court finally granted them a release on EGP 1,000 both on Tuesday.

Ten new Egyptian ministers were sworn in on Wednesday by President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi as part of a limited cabinet reshuffle.

Current and former ministers of education have exchanged accusations over the omission of former Vice President Mohamed ElBaradei from a list of Nobel Prize winners in primary-school textbooks.

“Mubarak dragged Egypt down,” President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi told an audience of journalists and intellectuals, said Abdallah al-Sennway, who was among them Tuesday.

Egypt is preparing to buy French warships and a military satellite in deals worth more than 1 billion euros (£790 million), La Tribune newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Current and former ministers of education have exchanged accusations over the omission of former Vice President Mohamed ElBaradei from a list of Nobel Prize winners in primary-school textbooks.

Egypt imposed Monday evening a media gag on investigations into a case of illegal NGO foreign funding, in which a number of human right activists are accused, according to a statement issued by Egypt’s Judicial Investigation Authority.

Archaeological sites in Alexandria are facing ruin, with renovation projects by the Antiquities Ministry covering 13 ancient Islamic, Coptic and Jewish monuments stalled due to a shortfall in funding that stretches back many years.