**President Hosni Mubarak is to return to Egypt following surgery in Germany, state media reported.**Government officials and military leaders will greet Mr Mubarak when he flies into Sharm el-Sheikh on Saturday, the official Mena news agency said.
Mr Mubarak, 81, underwent surgery on 6 March to remove his gall bladder and a growth from his small intestine.
He has been recuperating in Germany following the operation at Heidelberg University Hospital.
“President Mubarak returns to the motherland tomorrow after his recovery was completed,” a presenter on the Nile News channel said on Friday.
Government-run mosques across Egypt have offered prayers for Mr Mubarak’s recovery.
Taboo subject
Correspondents say the president’s health is usually a taboo subject in Egypt, and a cause of political and economic uncertainty because he has no obvious successor.
When he left for Germany, the president temporarily handed over power to his Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif.
Mr Mubarak has been in power for 29 years and his fifth six-year term ends in 2011.
In 2004, he underwent back surgery in Germany and handed over temporarily to then Prime Minister Atef Obeid.
In 2003, he collapsed during a televised speech in parliament, apparently from a bout of flu.