Egypt’s leading Islamist parties won about two-thirds of votes in the second round of polling for a Parliament that will draft a new Constitution.
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/ 13 September 2011
The interim council is struggling to assert its control over the entire country and capture a handful of stubbornly defended pro-Gaddafi towns.
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/ 5 February 2011
The United States signalled it wanted an orderly transition of power in Egypt that could see Hosni Mubarak remaining president until September.
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/ 5 February 2011
Leaders were meeting inside and outside Egypt on Saturday to seek a way out of a dangerous impasse between President Hosni Mubarak and demonstrators.
Crowds gathered in Cairo on Tuesday for a protest they hoped would swell to a million people demanding an end to the rule of President Hosni Mubarak.
Egyptian protesters were camped out in central Cairo on Monday and vowed to stay until they had toppled President Hosni Mubarak.
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/ 30 January 2011
The stench of blazing tyres filled the streets of Cairo on Sunday as President Hosni Mubarak sought to bargain with angry crowds.
Botswana’s Court of Appeal has struck down an earlier ruling that denied Kalahari Bushmen access to water on their ancestral land.
Coptic Christians clashed with police on Sunday as they demanded more protection for Egypt’s Christians following a bombing that killed 21.
Egypt is holding seven people for questioning over the New Year’s Day bombing of a church in the northern city of Alexandria.