Egypt's state grain buyer GASC said on Thursday it bought 120,000 tonnes of Russian wheat in a tender.

Port Said tourist port is set to receive one of the largest tourist ships with 2,000 crew members on Friday, Youm7 reported.

Egyptian Ministry of Supply is considering a proposal to establish a series of hyper-markets nationwide, to meet the citizens’ needs of basic goods and to alleviate some basic food shortage crisis. Egypt suffers shortage in sugar, rice.

Supply police at Upper Egypt’s governorate of Sohag seized on Thursday more than three tons of subsidized sugar amid growing shortages in the basic commodity on the market, Youm7 reported.

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi's office announced that the country's First National Youth conference will kick off next Tuesday for three days in Sharm El-Sheikh.

The Egyptian cabinet has decided to cut its spending and reduce Egypt's representation from various ministries in diplomatic missions abroad in a belt-tightening measure, the cabinet spokesman said in a statement.

Egyptian Minister of International Cooperation Sahar Nasr met with the new Kuwaiti ambassador to Cairo Mohammed Saleh Thuwaikh, talking about accelerating the implementation of the development projects in Sinai, according to a statement from the Egyptian Ministry on Wednesday.

Egypt’s dollar crisis is the reason behind Juhayna Food Industries SAE’s decline in net profits, its chairman told Reuters on Thursday.

Egypt said it is mediating between the United Nations bodies operating in Syria and the Syrian authorities to allow the delivery of humanitarian assistance in Aleppo.

The Cabinet is planning more cuts to fuel subsidies soon, in accordance to an agreement with the International Monetary Fund on a loan worth US$12 billion, a Cabinet source said on Wednesday.

There has been a 20 percent increase in the number of people moving through Egypt's sea ports on the Red Sea this year, according data released by the Red Sea Ports Authority.

A Security conscript has been detained for four days pending investigation over killing a policeman in the vicinity of the British embassy in Cairo, Youm7 reported on Wednesday.

Egypt’s strategic wheat reserves are enough for the coming five months, Youm7 quoted Supply Minister Mohamed Ali Moselhy on Wednesday.

The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) has allocated $1.8 billion to ensure six months of reserves in all strategic goods, Supply Minister Mohamed Ali El-Sheikh said on Wednesday, after widespread sugar shortages prompted talk of an impending food crisis.

Finance Minister Amr al Garhy announced on Wednesday plans to issue dollar-dominated bonds worth $2.5 billion to $3 billion to the international debt markets in the forthcoming period, Youm7 reported.

The Egyptian authorities on Wednesday opened the Rafah border crossing with Gaza Strip in both directions to permit the crossing of humanitarian cases, Youm7 reported.

Egypt’s Armed Forces foiled an attempt by 59 people of different nationalities to cross into neighboring Libya through the western gate of Salloum City, Youm7 reported.

An Egyptian parliamentary delegation, headed by speaker Ali Abdel Al will participate in the 135th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU,) scheduled to be held in Geneva, Switzerland Oct. 24-27.

“Take this. Slide it quickly in your bag before anyone sees us,” a shopkeeper at a popular gas mart in Cairo which sells cigarettes tells a shopper.

Joint military drills between Egypt's armed forces and their Russian counterparts near the coastal city of Alexandria will continue until 26 October, state news agency MENA reported.