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Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam is captured when attempting to flee to Niger and is held for trial
About 80 people are killed and more than 1000 injured in a clash between fans at a football match in the Egyptian city of Port Said
An Egyptian court sentences former president Hosni Mubarak to life imprisonment
Mohamed Morsi, a leading figure in the Muslim Brotherhood, becomes Egypt's first democratically elected president
In Libya's first democratic election the National Forces Alliance, led by Mahmoud Jibril, wins the largest number of seats
Mohamed Morsi issues a declaration giving himself virtually unlimited powers, leading to violent protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square
Violent protests against the film Innocence of Muslims break out in Egypt and soon spread to other Muslim countries
The Burj Qatar in Doha, by the French architect Jean Nouvel, is named by the Council on Tall Buildings the best of its kind in the Middle East and North Africa
Radical Islamists take more than 800 people hostage at the Amenas Gas Project in Algeria
French troops arrive in Mali, at the government's request, to help in evicting radical Islamist groups from the north of the country
About forty foreign hostages and twenty-nine militants die when Algerian forces raid the Amenas gas site
Violent protests erupt in Egypt against President Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood
Double-amputee Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius is charged with the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp
Violent clashes erupt again throughout Egypt between Muslim Brotherhood supporters of President Morsi and those objecting to his Islamist policies
After increasng chaos in Egypt the army arrests President Morsi, legitimately elected, and takes control
Egyptian troops begin using live ammunition against Muslim Brotherhood demonstrators
The Egyptian army declares a state of emergency, after continuing Muslim demonstrations, and imposes a curfew
Egyptian soldiers use live ammunition to disperse Muslim supporters of President Morsi, killing about 600
The shooting of Michael Brown, an African American, by a police officer occurs in Ferguson, Missouri triggering riots.
Scientists announce the discovery in South Africa of Homo naledi, a previously unknown species of early human
