14 April 2012 Last updated at 16:01 ET Egyptian election officials have barred 10 candidates from the presidential poll, including former spy chief Omar Suleiman and the Muslim Brotherhood’s Khairat al-Shater. Ultra-orthodox Salafi Hazem Salah Abu Ismail and long-standing opposition leader Ayman Nour were also banned. No official reason was given. The banned candidates...
2 February 2012 Last updated at 15:54 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Rupert Wingfield-Hayes: “It has been a day of anger, disbelief and suspicion” Nearly 400 people have been injured in Cairo in fresh clashes between police and protesters angered by the deaths of 74 people on Wednesday after...
25 November 2011 Last updated at 13:36 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. The BBC’s Lyse Doucet in Tahrir Square: “You could be forgiven for thinking there is something of a carnival atmosphere” Tens of thousands of protesters have packed into central Cairo’s Tahrir Square to demand that Egypt’s military...
22 November 2011 Last updated at 14:33 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi: “We do not seek power” Egypt’s military rulers have agreed to speed up presidential elections, a key demand of protesters packing Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi said on national...
21 November 2011 Last updated at 14:31 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. BBC’s Lyse Doucet in Tahrir Square: “The anger that has been mounting for many months has now boiled over” Egypt’s cabinet has offered to resign after three days of protests against the country’s military rulers, state media...
20 November 2011 Last updated at 15:15 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. The BBC’s Helena Merriman says police were beating protesters – “about 20 or 30 of them I saw, covered in blood” Thousands of Egyptian protesters have re-occupied Tahrir Square in the capital, Cairo, after a violent attempt...
19 November 2011 Last updated at 13:32 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. The BBC’s Yolande Knell said protesters were angry about the power held by the military More than 210 people have been injured in clashes with police in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, state TV reports. Police fired rubber bullets...
18 October 2011 Last updated at 16:31 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Gilad Shalit says he missed his family while in captivity and has much to do now he is free Cheering crowds have greeted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit as he arrived back in his northern hometown of Mitzpe...
Ghalia Mahmoud picks out tomatoes before her live show last week. She is now besieged by fans during her daily visits to the market in Cairo’s poor El-Warak neighbourhood. Photograph: Leila Fadel/Getty Armed with a mismatched set of cheap aluminium pots, a propane gas stove and a warm smile, a 33-year-old housemaid from Cairo...
10 September 2011 Last updated at 16:35 ET Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel will stick to its peace treaty with Egypt despite the attack on its embassy in Cairo. He was speaking after protesters stormed the Israeli embassy on Friday, prompting the evacuation of nearly all Israeli diplomatic staff. Egypt is...
