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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa invites Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates to join the bloc, with membership taking effect next year.
2023-08-24

Ten people are killed and nine others are injured when a truck and a minibus collide in Dakahlia Governorate, Egypt.
2022-10-25

Sinopharm is setting up production lines to supply up to one billion doses of two COVID-19 vaccines currently being tested on 50,000 people in Phase III trials. Sinopharm is currently testing the vaccines in ten countries, including Egypt, Argentina, Jordan, and Peru.
2020-10-20

Voters in Egypt go to the polls for the third round of voting for the lower house of the national parliament.
2012-01-3

Egypt's Freedom and Justice Party claims to have won a majority of seats in the runoff election.
2011-12-7

Islamist parties win the first stage of the Egyptian parliamentary election, with the Muslim Brotherhood-aligned Freedom and Justice Party first at 37% of the vote, and the more hardline Salafi Al-Nour Party in second place with 24% of the vote.
2011-12-4

The Government of Australia sends a QANTAS jet to evacuate Australians trapped in Egypt while the United States Government charters jets to evacuate its citizens.
2011-01-31

A stretch of beach in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, re-opens after a series of shark attacks.
2010-12-9

Officials in 3 Egyptian governorates declare a state of emergency after a barge leaked some 100 tons of gasoline into the Nile River north of Aswan.
2010-09-11