Sources: BBC
Fifty-six people, mostly children, are hospitalized after they suffocated due to inhalation of chlorine gas that leaked from a swimming pool in Alexandria, Egypt. 2023-07-20
Egypt receives its first shipment of raw materials used to manufacture the Sinovac Coronavac vaccine, as well as a shipment of 500,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine. 2021-05-21
Egypt executes top Ansar al-Sharia militant Hisham al-Ashmawy, a former special forces officer who was convicted over several high-profile attacks, the country's military spokesman said. 2020-03-4
A collision between a passenger and a cargo train in Beheira, Egypt kills 15 people and injures 40 more. 2018-02-28
Seven Pakistani crew members on Iranian cargo ship MV "Joya", sailing from Egypt to Dubai, UAE, are killed in a rocket attack off Yemen's coast. 2016-12-22
An Egyptian court sentences 26 people to death in absentia for plotting attacks on ships passing through the Suez Canal. 2014-02-26
The African Union has announced that it has suspended Egypt's membership. 2013-07-5
At least one person is killed and at least 373 others are wounded when armed forces fire water cannon, tear gas and rocks on demonstrators near Egypt's defence ministry in Cairo. 2012-05-4
Tens of thousands of people demonstrate in Tahrir Square against continuing military rule in Egypt. 2012-04-20
A man sets himself on fire outside the parliament building in Cairo, Egypt. Copycat burnings also take place in Algeria and Mauritania. 2011-01-17