Sources: CNN
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa declares a state of emergency as civil unrest spreads across the country. Dozens of Sri Lanka Police officers have been injured in clashes with protesters and 52 people have been arrested. 2022-04-1
Algeria announces it will host a meeting with foreign ministers from six North and sub-Saharan African nations, all of whom share a border with Libya, following the Berlin peace summit to help strengthen support for a tentative peace deal to end the Second Libyan Civil War. 2020-01-22
Latvia opts to describe an ongoing drought as "a natural disaster of a national scale" that can be dealt with using normal laws, in preference over declaring a state of emergency. 2018-06-26
The Governor of Virginia declares a state of emergency due to the protests. 2017-08-12
President Barack Obama declares a state of emergency for Florida, freeing up federal money and personnel to protect lives and property. 2016-10-6
The French National Assembly approves President François Hollande's request to extend the current state of emergency for three months. The Senate must still approve the measure. 2015-11-19
Algerian jihadist group Jund al-Khilafah release a video showing French tourist Hervé Gourdel being killed because of French participation in airstrikes against ISIS. 2014-09-24
The Governor of the US state of New Jersey, Chris Christie declares a state of emergency along the Passaic and Delaware Rivers and Bound Brook in Somerset County in order to prepare for anticipated floods later in the week. [http:--www.therepublic.com-view-story-d149db5723834f14b9362921dc9f5a66-NJ--Flooding-NJ-# (AP via "The Columbus Republic")]date=August 2019 2011-03-9
The state of emergency put in place after the 2011 Canterbury earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, is extended. 2011-03-7
Mourad Medelci, the foreign minister of Algeria, announces that the 19-year-old state of emergency will end "within days". 2011-02-14