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Ethiopia fully launches the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Africa's largest hydroelectric dam, sparking concerns about Nile water security from Egypt and Sudan. 2025-09-9
Eleven workers drown after a microbus falls off a ferry into the Nile River in Giza, Egypt. 2024-05-21
Israeli troops and tanks enter Khan Yunis in the south of the Gaza Strip. Displaced families in the region are heading further south to Rafah, a town on the Egyptian border. 2023-12-5
Israeli airstrikes hit near the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt, after an Israeli official advised Palestinians to leave the Gaza Strip through the border crossing. 2023-10-10
One person is killed and 84 others are injured by a chlorine gas leakage at a sewage plant in Qena, Egypt. 2023-07-27
The Shoei Kisen Kaisha-owned cargo ship "Fremantle Highway" with around 3,000 cars, en route from Germany to Egypt, catches fire near Ameland, Netherlands. One person is killed and 22 others on board are injured. 2023-07-26
Egypt's highest civilian court upholds the death sentence of 12 members of the Muslim Brotherhood over a 2013 sit-in, which ended with security forces opening fire and killing several hundred pro-Brotherhood protesters. The ruling, which cannot be appealed, leaves the men closer to execution with a pending approval by President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. 2021-06-14
A train crash and subsequent fire kills at least 25 people at Ramses Station in Cairo, Egypt. 2019-02-27
Archaeologists in Egypt display items, including figurines, masks and a mummy, from one of two previously unexplored tombs, Kampp 150 and Kampp 161, in the ancient Nile city of Luxor. 2017-12-9
Ethiopia, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda sign an agreement to seek more water from the Nile, a move opposed by Egypt and Sudan. Kenya issues a support statement. [http:--news.bbc.co.uk-2-hi-africa-8682387.stm (BBC)] [http:--english.aljazeera.net-news-africa-2010-05-201051412498188812.html (Al Jazeera)] [http:--www.iol.co.za-index.php?from=rss_Science&set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=nw20100514163441835C508599 (IOL)]date=August 2019 [http:--www.miamiherald.com-2010-05-14-1629403-upriver-nile-countries-sign-compact.html ("The Miami Herald")]date=August 2019 2010-05-14