A senior government official has revealed an International Monatery Fund (IMF) suggestion to fully float the Egyptian pound against the US dollar, during ongoing negotiations for a US$12 billion loan to be paid to Egypt over 3 years.

Russia expects that Egypt will be able to fulfill all necessary air security requirements by the end of October, Russian Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov said Monday.

Egypt’s finance minister said in a television interview on Sunday that Egypt’s external debt would reach $53.4 billion if his country receives an International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan.

Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs denied media reports claiming that Egypt has asked Israel’s mediation in talks between Cairo and Addis Ababa on the Ethiopian controversial Renaissance Dam, state-owned news agency MENA reported ministry spokesperson Ahmed Abu Zeid said in a statement Monday.

An Egyptian court sentenced two journalists from Al-Ahram online news portal, on Sunday, to prison and a fine respectively for publishing false new about former Justice Minister Ahmed al-Zend.

On Sunday, New Cairo Misdemeanor Court of Appeals set September 8 as the date to review an appeal filed by the former Chief of the Central Auditing Organization (CAO), Hesham Geneina, against a verdict sentencing him to jail for circulating false news.

Telecom Egypt, the country's state-owned landline monopoly, said on Sunday its board had given preliminary approval to a plan to buy a fourth-generation mobile phone license.

Technical studies to build a bridge linking between Egypt and Saudi Arabia over the Red Sea has started, Adel Turk, head of the General Authority for Roads & Bridges and Land Transport was quoted by Youm7 Sunday.

Chairperson of the Drinking Water Company of Delta’s Dakahlia stated that the governorate suffers sever water shortage to an extent that per capita share does not exceed 90 liters daily, Youm7 reported Monday.

Human rights lawyer Malek Adly saw his detention renewed on Sunday for another 15 days pending further investigations on charges of attempting to overthrow the regime.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has not imposed any preconditions on Egypt in order to implement a mooted $12 billion loan package, the country's finance ministry said on Sunday.

Finance lease activity grew by 12 percent in the first quarter of 2016 year-on-year, to EGP 11 billion, the head of the Egyptian Financial Supervisory Authority said on Sunday.

Over 40 people were hospitalised late on Saturday after they became sick from food poisoning in the Nile Delta governorate Kafr El-Sheikh, Ahram Arabic news website reported.

Cairo Court of Cassation rejected on Sunday an appeal filed by the Islamic researcher Islam al-Beheiry and upheld a one-year sentence given to him by Masr al-Qadima Misdemeanor Court of Appeals for blasphemy.

A group of political parties, syndicates, unions, and activists released a statement on Sunday to express their solidarity with the workers of the Alexandria Shipyard Company, who will be sentenced on Tuesday when the Alexandria Military Court hands down its verdict.

Egypt said it abstained from a UN Security Council vote to deploy a UN police force to Burundi for fear the resolution would bring the council into confrontation with the country’s authorities which has not yet consented to the UN's proposals.

A delegation from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) arrived in Egypt on Saturday for an official visit to discuss a support plan for the government’s economic reform project.

Egypt's population might hit 140 million in 2030 if the current rate of population growth continues, the rapporteur of the country's National Population Council said on Sunday.

Egyptian Interior Minister Magdy Abdel-Ghaffar discussed security cooperation with a British parliamentary delegation in Cairo headed by MP Gerald Howarth on Thursday, a ministry statement said.

Hurghada prosecutors have formed a committee of traffic experts and officers to inspect the scene of an accident involving a bus and a truck that killed three and injured 33 others on Friday morning.

Russian Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov discussed step-by-step aviation security measures at regular consultations with his Egyptian counterpart, Civil Aviation Minister Sherif Fathi, the Russian ministry said Friday.