Egypt’s military-backed government has ordered the police to break up the sit-in protests by supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi, saying they pose an “unacceptable threat” to national security. …read more
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A bomb blast outside the security headquarters in one of Egypt’s Nile Delta cities wounded 19 people, security officials said early Wednesday, raising fears of deteriorating security after President Mohammed Morsi’s ouster.
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The family of ousted President Mohammed Morsi furiously denounced the military Monday, accusing it of “kidnapping” him, and European diplomats urged that Egypt’s first freely elected leader be released after being held incommunicado for nearly three weeks since being deposed by the army.
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The Muslim Brotherhood reportedly is attempting to blame Egypt’s Coptic Christian community for the recent ousting of President Mohammed Morsi and even resorting to violent tactics in an effort to gain back power.
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Egypt’s official news agency says a panel charged with amending the constitution in the aftermath of the ouster of President Mohammed Morsi is meeting for the first time. …read more
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After three weeks, some local residents have started to have enough with Islamist supporters of Egypt’s ousted President Mohammed Morsi camped out outside a Cairo mosque in their neighborhood to demand he be restored to office. …read more
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Thousands of protesters are holding rallies across Egypt to demand the reinstatement of ousted President Mohammed Morsi.
The Muslim Brotherhood, from which Morsi hails, is mobilizing followers to march in Cairo and elsewhere Friday for a protest they’re dubbing “Breaking the Coup.”
Youth activists who launched the massive protests that led to Morsi’s ouster by the military also plan a mass demonstration in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, raising fears of clashes in the capital between the two sides and authorities.
The military has warned it will act swiftly to prevent violence.
The protests come days after an interim administration was appointed.
Egypt’s interim President Adly Mansour has pledged to protect his country against those who seek chaos and violence in the aftermath of the popularly backed military coup.
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In his first address to the nation, Egypt’s interim leader Adly Mansour says he will protect the country against those who seek chaos and violence.
In a pre-recorded message aired Thursday on state television, Mansour says Egypt is going through a decisive period in its history where some want to drag the country into the “unknown” and cause chaos.
He said: “They want this period to be an introduction to violence and we want it to establish for the concept of protecting lives and reaffirming human rights.”
Mansour said his government is committed to realizing security and stability.
Mansour’s speech comes a day ahead of a massive rally by supporters of President Mohammed Morsi, overthrown in a coup two weeks ago. The military has warned against violence in Friday’s protests.
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Egypt’s military has issued a stern warning against violence a day ahead of potentially massive protests called for by supporters of the country’s ousted Islamist president.
The military statement issued Thursday said that “whoever resorts to violence and deviates from peacefulness in Friday’s rallies will put his life in danger.”
The Muslim Brotherhood, from which ousted President Mohammed Morsi hails, continues to demand his reinstatement, two weeks after he was toppled by the military following massive protests. The Brotherhood is calling for a massive rally Friday, which they’ve titled “Breaking the Coup.” Anti-Morsi protesters also have called for protests Friday.
Some protests since Morsi’s overthrow have turned violent. About 60 people have been killed in clashes with security and local residents that erupted out of the demonstrations.
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Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris has revealed that his family plans to increase their investment in the country to the tune of billions of dollars following the July 3 ousting of President Mohammed Morsi by military force, Reuters has reported. …read more
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Several hundred supporters of Egypt’s deposed president are protesting near the Cabinet building in central Cairo against the country’s new interim government.
The demonstrators Wednesday say the new leadership is illegitimate and demand that ousted President Mohammed Morsi be reinstated.
Egypt’s new 34-member Cabinet was sworn-in on Tuesday. It features several prominent figures from the country’s liberal and secular factions, as well as three women and three Christians.
There are no ministers from Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood or other Islamist groups.
The interim government is part of a military-backed transition plan following the July 3 coup that deposed Morsi, Egypt’s first freely elected president.
Also Wednesday, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton is in Cairo for talks with Egypt’s interim leaders.
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Several hundred supporters of Egypt’s deposed president are protesting near the Cabinet building in central Cairo against the country’s new interim government.
The demonstrators Wednesday say the new leadership is illegitimate and demand that ousted President Mohammed Morsi be reinstated.
Egypt’s new 34-member Cabinet was sworn-in on Tuesday. It features several prominent figures from the country’s liberal and secular factions, as well as three women and three Christians.
There are no ministers from Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood or other Islamist groups.
The interim government is part of a military-backed transition plan following the July 3 coup that deposed Morsi, Egypt’s first freely elected president.
Also Wednesday, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton is in Cairo for talks with Egypt’s interim leaders.
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Egyptian officials turn back a planeload of Syrians at Cairo airport. A popular presenter on Egyptian television warns Syrians to steer clear of protests or face the consequences. An Egyptian state school refuses admission to Syrian children.
Once welcomed with open arms in Egypt, many of the tens of thousands of Syrians who took refuge here from the civil war at home have now found themselves targets of hate speech and intimidation. Their dramatic change in fortune is one of the unexpected consequences of the Egyptian military’s ouster of President Mohammed Morsi, whose Islamist-dominated government offered them favorable conditions.
The shift could have a profound impact on the lives of Syrians in Egypt as they currently find themselves in a sort of legal limbo, waiting to see where the political winds will drop them. In what many see as a hint of what lies ahead, Egypt’s new military-backed interim government already has imposed new travel restrictions.
That has spooked many Syrians who fear their current visas won’t be renewed and they could be forced to leave Egypt. Many have invested their savings in businesses or simply cannot return to their war-ravaged cities.
“Our biggest fear now is that we get deported,” said Azzam Ayed, a 32-year-old Syrian who refused to give his hometown out of fears for his security.
The backlash stems from support of the mainly Sunni Syrian opposition by Morsi during his year in office, and the Muslim Brotherhood, which offered cheap housing and food aid to Syrians who fled the violence in their homeland.
With the country divided, Morsi’s critics accused Syrians of participating in the protests calling for him to be reinstated.
International human rights groups have urged Egypt to rescind the measures.
“Egypt may be going through tumultuous times, but it must not return anyone, including Syrians, to somewhere threatening their life or freedom,” Nadim Houry, the New York-based group’s deputy Middle East director, said in a statement last week. “While Egypt is going through a very difficult period, it simply should not strand Syrians this way, especially those who have fled such a devastating conflict at home.
The U.N. says some 70,000 Syrians are registered in Egypt, although officials estimate the actual number may be twice that since many have opted not to register. That would make …read more
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The Obama administration is sending a senior envoy to Egypt, the first to be dispatched since the ouster of President Mohammed Morsi.
Leading Egyptian reform advocate Mohammed ElBaradei has been sworn-in as the country’s interim vice president.
ElBaradei was sworn-in Sunday by interim President Adly Mansour, as Egypt’s new leadership pushes ahead with a transition following the military’s ouster of President Mohammed Morsi nearly two weeks ago.
Egypt’s new vice president is a former diplomat and Nobel laureate who was heading the main liberal opposition coalition that stood with Defense Secretary Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi as he announced Morsi’s ouster amid massive protests against his rule.
Thousands of Morsi’s supporters are protesting his removal from power and the military-backed timeline for transition.
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Islamist lawmakers in Egypt’s disbanded upper house of parliament demanded Saturday the army reinstate ousted President Mohammed Morsi, and called on other legislatures around the world not to recognize the country’s new military-backed leadership.
Morsi’s supporters, including his Islamist allies, remain steadfast in their rejection of the popularly supported military coup that toppled Morsi nearly two weeks ago. They have staged a series of mass protests in Cairo to push their demands, and are vowing to stay in the streets until Morsi is returned to office.
Speaking at a mass rally staged by Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo, the two dozen former parliamentarians, all Islamist members of the Shura Council that was dissolved by court order, accused the military of attempting to restore a “corrupt and dictatorial” regime.
Morsi was Egypt’s first freely elected president, succeeding longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak who himself was toppled in 2011. The military ousted Morsi after millions of protesters took to the streets calling for his removal.
The military has brushed aside the Brotherhood’s demands, while the new army-backed administration of interim President Adly Mansour has forged ahead with a swift timetable to amend the now suspended constitution, drafted under Morsi, and to hold parliamentary and presidential elections by early next year.
While the presidency has floated offers of reconciliation with the Brotherhood, authorities are simultaneously clamping down the group. So far, five of its top leaders have been arrested, and arrest warrants have been issued against the group’s top leader and nine other Islamists. Islamist TV networks, meanwhile, have been shuttered.
Prosecutors on Saturday said they continue to investigate allegations that Morsi and 30 other Brotherhood leaders escaped from prison in 2011 with help from the Palestinian militant group Hamas. That jailbreak occurred amid the uprising that toppled Mubarak.
Street violence has largely ceased since Monday’s deadly clashes that left more than 50 Muslim Brotherhood supporters dead and hundreds wounded after they were holding a sit-in in front of Republican Guard forces club. The Brotherhood accuses the military of opening fire on protesters, while the army says Morsi supporters instigated the violence.
The Brotherhood has remained adamant in its opposition to the new political landscape, and shows no sign of backing down in its showdown with the military-backed interim leadership.
On his Facebook page, Mohammed el-Beltagi, leading Brotherhood member said that “those who want reconciliation, our arms are open … but those who want reconciliation, do not fire bullets … they say they made a mistake and tell the killer to step aside.”
Morsi’s supporters have pledged to keep protesting until the military meets their demands — the reinstatement of Morsi, the Islamist-drafted constitution and the Islamist-dominated legislature — and leading Brotherhood member Essam el-Arian called for another mass rally on Monday.
The deposed president’s supporters have been holding a sit-in in front of the Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque in eastern Cairo for two weeks. The rally has taken on a more permanent air, with tents going up as well as bathrooms being constructed behind brick walls to provide some privacy. Army soldiers stand guard from …read more
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Military attack helicopters rattle over the impoverished desert towns of northern Sinai and the sound of gunfire erupts nightly, raising fears among residents of a looming confrontation between Egypt’s military and Islamic militants who have intensified attacks since the ouster of President Mohammed Morsi.
Militant groups have grown bolder, striking security forces almost daily and also turning on local Christians. Some are now openly vowing to drive the military out of the peninsula on the borders with Israel and Gaza and establish an “Islamic emirate.” Further fueling the turmoil is the longtime resentment among many in the Bedouin population over decades of neglect and harsh security crackdowns by the state.
The military and security forces have widened their presence, and military intelligence officials told The Associated Press an offensive is being planned, but no further details were given.
In a rare move, the Egyptian military sent a helicopter across the border to fly over the southern end of the Gaza Strip early Friday. Egyptian security officials said it was intended as a warning to its Hamas rulers amid concerns that Gaza militants are trying to cross to back those in the Sinai. The security and intelligence officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the press.
Israeli security officials say their military has not taken any special precautions, but it is watching the situation carefully. They say they remain in close contact with their Egyptian counterparts, and that Egypt has coordinated its security moves in Sinai with Israel, as required by their 1979 peace treaty.
“The situation is not secure. It is better to be home than to go out into the street,” said Moussa el-Manaee, a resident in the northern Sinai town of Sheikh Zuweyid, which has a heavy presence of jihadi groups. “I am afraid to ride my car and catch a stray bullet.”
Sinai has been the most lawless corner of Egypt since the ouster of autocrat Hosni Mubarak in early 2011, with increased violence. Police stations were torched and security forces kicked out of tribal areas where they were notorious for abuses. Shootings took place regularly on police and military outposts.
But after the military deposed the Islamist president on July 3, militant groups have lashed out.
In the past 10 days, at least eight security officers have been killed, the most recent on Friday. Two …read more
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Egypt‘s state news agency says that a government legal agency representing President Mohammed Morsi has lost an appeal to reverse a court-ordered suspension of parliamentary elections.
MENA reported Sunday that the ruling by the Supreme Administrative Court to uphold the suspension was final. The polls had been set to begin this month.
Egyptian State Lawsuits Authority had filed the appeal after a lower court ruled in early March that the law governing the elections was illegal and that its passage by the Islamist-dominated temporary parliament was procedurally improper.
The president’s Muslim Brotherhood party was pushing to hold elections for the law-making body now, saying it is essential for stability and a transition to democracy.
The opposition had expressed concerns, however, that the election law allowed for gerrymandering by the Brotherhood-dominated parliament.
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