| 5,995,888 |
30.760955 |
30.697326 |
Egypt |
|
On 9 June, workers in the Koum Hamada textile factory in Beheira went on strike after a fellow worker, who presented a document to the management with several demands from his colleagues, was arrested by the company's security and the police. Other demands presented by the workers included a late 7% bonus to those who are holders of degrees and the right to 10 days off annually. |
| 5,995,892 |
30.72508 |
31.67148 |
Egypt |
|
Lawyers from Abu Kabir in Sharqeya Governorate launched a partial work strike on 13 June in Abu Kabir court. The action came following the detention for 15 days of two lawyers pending investigations over charges of unlicensed protest, stirring riots, and disrupting public clerks from executing their jobs. |
| 5,995,896 |
30.04458 |
31.23997 |
Egypt |
|
Dozens of Egyptian students gathered around the Ministry of Education calling for Education Minister El-Helaly El-Sherbiny to resign and bring an end to the current university admissions system. The students raised their objections to the level of difficulty in an exam paper and the prevalance of exam cheating. |
| 5,995,899 |
30.07708 |
31.28591 |
Egypt |
|
Workers from the Egyptian Holding Company for Land Reclamation held a strike on 13 June demanding payment of late salaries held since May 2015. |
| 5,995,902 |
30.10882 |
31.37924 |
Egypt |
|
Dozens of workers in the Nile Cotton Ginning Company (NCGC)staged aprotestMonday in front of Itihadiya Palace in Cairo demanding the return of their company to the ownership of the government. |
| 5,995,907 |
31.12502 |
33.74021 |
Egypt |
|
Four masked gunmen stormed a house in the northern Sinai Peninsula city of al-Arish and shot dead two policemen on 16 June. The statement did not say who was behind the attack, which bore the hallmarks of Islamic militants. The officers were killed inside their homes, which are located in the Masaeed district near an Arish police station. |
| 5,995,911 |
31.2163 |
34.11074 |
Egypt |
|
Al-Shorouk reported that two militant attacks were foiled and 15 Islamist miltiants were killed in Sinai's Sheikh Zuweid. |
| 5,995,917 |
31.017299 |
29.870687 |
Egypt |
|
On 17 June, a Muslim mob in the the village of Qaryat al Bayda in Amriya south of Alexandria waged a sectarianattackagainst the Copts in the village on suspicion that the Copts were turning a house owned by one of their community into a church. The Muslim mob gathered and, shouting Islamic slogans against the Copts, throwing stones at Coptic-owned houses in the village. They attempted to destroy the building and the construction material that was being used to erect the house. They assaulted and injured two Coptic men. |
| 5,995,921 |
31.13159 |
33.79844 |
Egypt |
|
At least 30 alleged State of Sinai militants were killed and another 40 injured in Egyptian Air Forcestrikes on 18 June. The militants, who escaped Sheikh Zuwaid city and relocated to the area of Mazarei Gehad abu Tabl, were targeted south of Arish city, near to the international airport |
| 5,995,925 |
14.6252 |
39.2002 |
Eritrea |
|
Clashes broke out between Eritrean and Ethiopian forces in the Tsorena front, along the two countries' border. Both sides blamed each other for the attack. A significant number of casulaties was reported in one of the worst clashes since the 1998-2000 border war. In a retaliatory attack the fllowing day, Eritrea allegedly crossed into Ethiopia at Kudu Haiwa, killing 200 Ethiopian soldiers, injuring 300 and capturing 52. Ethiopia downplyed the numbers. |
