Egypt will hold its first international tender for gold mining concessions since 2009 in early December, Petroleum Minister Tarek El Molla said at an economic conference on Monday.

The legislative Committee of the House of the Parliament has approved on a court decision to annul the membership of the parliamentarian Ahmed Mortada and appointing politician Amr al-Shobky, who was a member of 50-Member Committee that tasked to draft 2014 constitution, in his post, Parlamany reported on Monday.

Egyptian and Jordanian militaries continued exercises (Aqaba 2016) on Monday in southern Hashemite Kingdom, said Egyptian Armed Forces Spokesperson Mohamed Samir in a statement.

President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi will meet with European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs, and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos on Monday, Youm7 reported.

Politician and poet Abdel-Rahman Youssef has been sentenced in absentia by a Cairo court on Monday to three years in prison on charges of "spreading false news" after criticising the president.

Orange Egypt has completed payment for its fourth-generation mobile services license and submitted the outstanding $242 million it owed the Egyptian government, a company official told Reuters on Monday.

Egypt’s stock exchange opened on a mixed note in Monday trade session, for the first time since the government has floated the Egyptian pound against the U.S. dollar scale early November, Youm7 reported.

Egypt will allocate 60 million EGP ($3.6 million), a part from the first tranche of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s $12loan, to the state’s budget deficit of Fiscal Year of 2016/2017, Youm7 reported an anonymous official told Youm7 on Monday.

Egypt has participated in the 9th iFresh China Fruit & Vegetable Expo that kicked off on Monday in Shanghai, Egypt’s state-owned news agency MENA reported.

The Cairo Criminal Court on Sunday upheld a decision issued by Attorney General Nabil Sadek against 26 people involved in local wheat procurement corruption, Youm7 reported.

The Chairman of EgyptAir Safwat Mosalam announced that weekly trips between Madrid and the southern city of Luxor are set to begin through Cairo International Airport during the current winter season.

The US dollar’s average exchange rate continued to fall against the Egyptian pound in Egypt's local lenders on Monday, registering EGP 15.5, according to the websites of three major banks.

Egyptian parliament speaker Ali Abdel-Al announced in a plenary session Sunday that 14 government-drafted laws dealing with political, judicial and economic issues – most notably laws regulating elections – have been referred to parliament for approval.

The Egyptian parliament's Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee failed on Sunday to convene a long-delayed meeting to decide on the outstanding issue of implementing a court order to seat MP-elect Amr El-Shobaky due to the absence of deputy speaker El-Sayed El-Sharif.

The fate of Egypt’s second term school text books is up in the air after 20 print houses said they are not able to print school material over losses caused by last week’s currency flotation.

Chairman of the Egyptian parliament's human rights committee Alaa Abed said Sunday that a list of 134 individuals currently in detention pending investigation was submitted to President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi to see whether they are eligible for pardon.

The Egyptian parliament's General Committee said on Sunday that it has reviewed a complaint filed against MP Anwar El-Sadat – the former head of parliament's human rights committee – which accused him of leaking the government-drafted NGO law to a number of foreign embassies in Cairo.

The Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip will open for four days, starting from Monday till Friday, state owned MENA agency reported on Sunday.

The Egyptian presidency held a meeting on Sunday with young representatives from 25 political parties to discuss the state's endorsing of volunteer work in the country.

Egypt's $12 billion three-year IMF loan programme will be repaid in 10 years with a 4.5 year grace period and the reforms agreed with the international lender aim to boost growth and curb inflation, the finance ministry said on Sunday.