The Parliament’s Legislative Committee approved on Wednesday amendments to Egypt’s Organ Transplant Law which stipulate drafting harsher penalties into the law regulating organ transplantation in Egypt. Among the amendments approved was Article 17, which states that anyone who removes an organ from a human body with the intention of illegally transplanting it -- violating Articles 2,3, and 4 -- shall be punished by strict imprisonment and a fine between LE500,000 and LE1 million.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry discussed on Tuesday with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni mutual ties and means to boost cooperation among Nile Basin countries ahead of an upcoming presidential summit scheduled in June, the foreign ministry said in a statement. Shoukry delivered a letter from President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi to Museveni on ways to boost bilateral cooperation in all fields, foreign ministry spokesman Ahmed Abu Zeid said late on Tuesday.

President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi ratified on Tuesday the amendment to the Protest Law that was recently approved by parliament. The amendment to the Protest Law only included a modification to Article 10, as recommended by the government.

Egypt saw $1.6 billion in tourism revenues from around 1.7 million tourists who visited the country in the first three months of 2017, compared to around 1.2 million tourists in same period last year, a source at the tourism ministry told Ahram Online on Tuesday.

After a dinner of molokhia at a popular restaurant in Imbaba, Alaa Mubarak, son of deposed president Hosni Mubarak, spent the night playing dice and taking photos with other customers at the café. Social media users posted photos and video of Alaa Mubarak. A user who posted video footage wrote: "[At] the coffee shop next to a restaurant in the area, where Alaa ate dinner on Saturday night."

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry is heading to Uganda on Monday for a visit aimed at boosting cooperation with Nile Basin countries, according to a ministry statement. Shoukry will deliver a letter from President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi to his counterpart Yoweri Museveni dealing with water-security issues and the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI). The visit will also involve discussions on bilateral relations and development cooperation, the statement said.

The advisory board of the Judges Club held a meeting Monday to discuss the repercussions of the new Judicial Authority law which was approved by the House of Representatives and ratified by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi last week, against the wishes of the State Council and Judges Club. Judicial sources told al-Masy al-Youm that the meeting will discuss the possibility of devising a new bill and ways to appeal against the new law which came into effect on Friday.

Egypt's farmers have deposited 237,300 tonnes of wheat at government silos during the first two weeks of this year's grain harvest, the supply ministry said on Sunday.

Egypt’s judges are divided over the controversial new judicial authority law ratified by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Thursday, which gives the President the right to select the heads of the judiciary authorities. Judicial sources told Al-Masry Al-Youm on Friday that the Judges’ Club and the Supreme Judicial Council are at odds, as the later don’t wish to escalate against the law and wish instead to just appeal the case with the prosecution against it.

A delegation from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) arrive in Cairo Sunday to follow up on the progress in the country's economic reform programme ahead of delivering the $1.25 billion second tranche of an IMF loan, according to a finance ministry statement Saturday.

Egypt has slammed a US Senate hearing held earlier this week – which suggested that Washington reconsider its relationship with Cairo given Egypt's poor human rights record – as deliberately aiming to present a negative image of the situation in the country.

The Egyptian State Council's Judges Club announced it would not supervise the upcoming parliamentary elections in objection to the new Judicial Authority Law, which was approved by the Parliament on Wednesday.

Egypt’s Prime Minister Sherif Ismail presented the president on Wednesday with the latest updates on the ongoing economic reform measures, stating that the cabinet is targeting a 22.6 percent inflation rate by the end of the year, down from 32.5 percent registered in March.

A General Assembly for the State Council will be held next month to elect a new council head to succeed the current president, Mohamed Masoud, whose tenure ends on June 30, senior judicial sources told al-Masry al-Youm. This election comes while the House of Representatives is still trying to sort out the dilemma of the new Judicial Authority Law, which would have set a different criteria for appointing a new head of the State Council.

Sheikh Sabry Abada, Adviser to the Minister of Endowments, appealed to the House of Representatives to pass a law that attributes children of illegal marriage to their fathers so the children can have their legitimate rights in case the mother proves the child's lineage to his father.

The United Group law firm announced Monday that the Justice and Development Commission of the Justice Ministry convened upon the request of the justice minister to discuss legal action that may amount to dismissal from the judicial corps against judge Assem Abdel Gabbar, Vice-President of the Court of Cassation, and judge Hisham Raouf, President of the Court of Appeal, because of their participation in the development of a law against torture prepared by the United Group.

The official Facebook page for Egypt’s National Youth Conference just announced a new initiative called “Esaal al-Ra'ees” (Ask the President) to allow Egyptians to freely submit questions to President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, which he will personally answer during the next National Youth Conference from April 25-27 in Ismailia. Now you can ask the president and have your voice reach him without any restrictions. Mr President is waiting for your questions. Submit your questions via the link.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz held an Egyptian-Saudi summit at the Royal Court in Al-Yamamah Palace in Saudi Arabia on Sunday. The summit was attended by a large number of princes, ministers and senior officials in the Kingdom. Ambassador Alaa Youssef, Spokesperson for the Presidency, said that the two leaders held a session of talks in the presence of delegations from the two countries.

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and Saudi King Salman stressed during talks in Riyadh on Sunday the need to preserve the security and stability of Arab states and to combat attempts to drive a wedge between Arab allies, Egypt's state news agency MENA said.

Lawyer Tareq Mahmoud has filed a lawsuit at the Administrative Court demanding that activist Aya Hegazy, who holds a US citizenship, be stripped of her Egyptian nationality.

The Sudanese government deposited with the UN Security Council the coordinates of the baselines from which its maritime areas are measured, including the Halayeb and Shalateen triangle, Sudanese newspaper Sudan Tribune reported on Saturday.