Egypt, Africa

CAIRO Sunday, September 07, 2008 (IRIN) - Just a few days after a fire engulfed the upper house of parliament in the heart of Cairo, the city...

EILAT Monday, September 08, 2008 (IRIN) - Israel deported to Egypt 91 illegal African migrants in four operations coordinated during the last two...

CAIRO Tuesday, September 16, 2008 (IRIN) - Thousands of slum dwellers displaced by the 6 September rockslide at Dweiqa and Ezbat Bekhiet face an...

CAIRO Thursday, September 18, 2008 (IRIN) - Northern villages have been flooded, and houses submerged, due to poor drainage as well as rising...

DUBAI Thursday, October 09, 2008 (IRIN) - “Black cloud”, a mass of polluted air which darkens the skies of the Egyptian capital in October-November,...

CAIRO Tuesday, October 14, 2008 (IRIN) - Hamid Amin Hamza, his wife Om Omar, and their family of 10, including their physically disabled son Jaafar,...

CAIRO Thursday, October 23, 2008 (IRIN) - The Centre for Migration and Refugee Studies and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) have...

CAIRO Wednesday, November 05, 2008 (IRIN) - On 6 September some limestone cliffs in Cairo collapsed, killing up to 2,500 residents of Dweiqa...

DUBAI Sunday, November 09, 2008 (IRIN) - On 5 October, farmer Muhammad Tulaib woke up to the news that red palm weevils - a large species of beetle...

CAIRO Tuesday, November 18, 2008 (IRIN) - Egypt, the country hit hardest by avian flu in the Middle East, is working on preventative measures to stop...