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Egypt files formal protest to Israel over border deaths
Egypt
August 19, 2011
Egypt files formal protest to Israel over border deaths
Egypt lodged a formal protest to Israel on Friday over the deaths of five military and security personnel near the…
Amr Moussa condemns deaths in Israeli border raid
Egypt
August 19, 2011
Amr Moussa condemns deaths in Israeli border raid
Amr Moussa, the former Secretary General of the Arab League and a presidential hopeful, condemned the killing of Egyptian military…
Egyptian police kill Sudanese migrant near Israel border
Egypt
August 11, 2011
Egyptian police kill Sudanese migrant near Israel border
Egyptian police shot dead a Sudanese migrant and wounded two others on Thursday as they tried to cross illegally into…
Egypt discovers three new Gaza tunnels
Egypt
June 27, 2011
Egypt discovers three new Gaza tunnels
Egyptian authorities on Monday discovered three underground tunnels on the borders with the Palestinian Gaza Strip. The discovery came as…
Egypt reopens Rafah border crossing with Gaza
Egypt
May 28, 2011
Egypt reopens Rafah border crossing with Gaza
Egypt reopened its Rafah border crossing with Gaza today, allowing people to cross freely for the first time in four…
Stranded Africans on Egypt-Libya border say their embassies gave up on them
Egypt
March 12, 2011
Stranded Africans on Egypt-Libya border say their embassies gave up on them
Around 5000 people are stranded on the Libyan border, hoping to enter Egypt via the Salloum crossing, after their embassies…
Egyptian shot dead on Syria-Jordan border
Egypt
December 23, 2010
Egyptian shot dead on Syria-Jordan border
Egypt announced on Thursday one of its citizens was shot dead by Jordanian border guards when attempting to cross Jordan’s…
Egypt authorities ‘actively searching’ for Eritrean refugees held in Sinai
Egypt
December 8, 2010
Egypt authorities ‘actively searching’ for Eritrean refugees held in Sinai
Egyptian security authorities are searching for hundreds of Eritrean refugees who the United Nations says are being held hostage by…
10 African migrants arrested; 6 tunnels discovered
Egypt
November 13, 2010
10 African migrants arrested; 6 tunnels discovered
An Eritrean man was shot while attempting to cross illegally into Israel via one of the border points in Sinai…
Tensions simmer in Spanish enclave in North Africa
World
August 23, 2010
Tensions simmer in Spanish enclave in North Africa
Melilla, Spain--In this crowded and muggy speck of Europe perched on Africa's shoulder, with the Mediterranean to one side and…