EU foreign ministers have called for "peaceful dialogue" in Egypt as ongoing mass protests against the government continue.

January 2011: Activists in Egypt call for an uprising in their own country, to protest against poverty, unemployment, government corruption and the rule of president Hosni Mubarak, who has been in power for three decades.

As Egypt prepares to begin what activists hope will be a new era in democracy - which promises to be as confusing as it is monumental