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2020 in Egypt

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2020
in
Egypt

Decades:
See also:Other events of 2020
List of years in Egypt

Events in the year 2020 in Egypt.

Incumbents

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Events

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Ongoing – 2020 Middle East storms; COVID-19 pandemic in Egypt

January

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February

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March

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April

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May

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June

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July

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August

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  • 3 August – International Co-operation Minister Rania Al-Mashat invites billionaire Elon Musk to visit the country after he had tweeted, "Aliens built the pyramids obv." Archaeologist Zahi Hawass calls the tweet a "complete hallucination" and responds that the "pyramids [were] built by Egyptians."[43]

September

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  • 7 September – Lawyers for the family of former President Mohamed Morsi said they obtained intelligence proving his youngest son, Abdullah, 25, was poisoned. In 2019, officials had claimed he had died of a heart attack.[44]

October

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November

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December

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  • December 8 – Human rights activists in Paris protest President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi's state visit to France.[50]
  • December 29 – Ahmed Bassam Zaki, a former student at the American University in Cairo, is convicted of blackmail and sexual harassment of two women. Other charges of assault of girls as young as 14 will be heard on January 9, 2021.[51]

Planned and scheduled events

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Deaths

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Magda al-Sabahi
Hosni Mubarak
Essam el-Erian

January

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February

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March

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April

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May

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June

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July

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August

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September

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October

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November

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See also

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References

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  82. ^ Senior al-Qaeda leader Abu Muhsin al-Masri killed in Afghanistan
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