Egypt's central bank is not moving toward devaluing the pound or floating its currency, a central bank official said in remarks published by the state news agency on Tuesday, as demand for dollars in the black market soared.

Egypt's speaker of parliament Ali Abdel Al has again called on Switzerland to work with Egypt in recovering millions of dollars of assets linked to ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, state news agency MENA said.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said that democracy is a long and continuous process and that enshrining it will take between 20 to 25 years, which he considered to be a short period of time to achieve the goal.

The Egyptian Centre for Economic and Social Rights (ECESR) began providing assistance to white taxi drivers in 2012, according to its leader and prominent rights lawyer, and former presidential candidate, Khaled Ali.

Egypt’s unemployment rate eased 0.10 percent in the period from October to December in 2015 compared to the same quarter the year before, state statistics body CAPMAS said in e-mailed statement on Monday.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi received on Sunday a US delegation representing the Atlantic Council, which included former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former US National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley, former US Ambassador to Cairo Francis Ricciardone among other researchers.

More than 45,000 patients with Hepatitis C virus have been treated at the expense of the state with an estimated cost of 270,000 EGP ($35,000) Youm7 quoted an official source Monday.

The Egyptian stock market's benchmark index EGX 30 rose by around 0.95 per cent, reaching 5,808 points in the first 15 minutes of trade on Monday.

The Cairo Criminal Court sentenced 15 members from the Ultras White Knights (UWK) to one year in prison on Monday following charges levelled against the members accusing them of storming into the Al-Zamalek club headquarters and attempting to assassinate the club’s president in August 2014.

Cairo criminal court ordered on Sunday a new investigation into the case of the killing of 22 Zamalek club fans last year, saying that the available evidence and the witness testimonies are too "inconclusive for the court to make a ruling."

An inmate has been killed during an attempted break-out from a police station in the town of Hawamdiya, Giza, the Interior Ministry said on Saturday.

Within the framework of the Support to the Association Agreement Programme (SAAP), the European Union Delegation to Egypt, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of International cooperation and the Egyptian National Railways (ENR) are celebrating the kickoff of the institutional twinning project funded by the European Union and implemented by the Kingdom of Spain.

Egypt's highest court reversed on Sunday a 15-year jail sentence handed down by a lower court to a policeman for killing an activist in the street, judicial sources said, overturning a rare sentence against members of security forces.

Parliament Speaker Ali Abdel Aal arrived in Geneva Sunday, where he is scheduled to discuss fields of cooperation between the Egyptian parliament and Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) with the president of the IPU.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi will address the country's newly elected House of Representatives on Saturday for the first time since taking office in ‎June 2014.

Egyptian railway services are in need of LE100 billion in repairs and uprades to meet global standards, Egypt’s Transport Minister Saad El-Geyoushi said Thursday during a visit to the scene of the most recent train crash, urging investors to direct investments to the transport sector.

Undersecretary of Health Ministry in Gharbiya governorate Mohamed Sharshar was dismissed from his position after a number of patients were blinded after receiving injections of unlicensed drugs, Youm7 reported Thursday.

A train crash in the Beni Suef province left at least 69 people injured on Wednesday night, a representative for the ministry of health said.

The case of Mahmoud Mohamed Hussein, who was detained at the age of 17 for wearing T-shirt emblazoned with the words “Nation without torture”, may be the most notorious case of a juvenile in pre-trial detention for the long-term.

Cairo’s taxi drivers on Wednesday repeated their demands to the Egyptian government to immediately ban taxi service operators Uber and Careem.

Egypt signed on Wednesday an agreement with the UK-based Control Risks firm to evaluate Egyptian airports over two stages, state news agency MENA reported. During the first phase, the global independent consultancy company will be tasked with the evaluation of three airports –Cairo, Sharm El-Sheikh and Marsa Alam -- at an approximate cost of $700,000, MENA reported citing Aviation Minister Hossam Kamal.