Re: Another protest, another revoluton in Egypt, they are better off with the dictato
Adli Mansour, the top judge of Egypt's constitutional court, is to be sworn in as interim president after the Egyptian army deposed the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi. The army moved after four days of sustained giant street protests that eclipsed even the rallies that brought down Hosni Mubarak. Morsi became the second Egyptian leader to be kicked out of power in 28 months.
• General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced the change in government in a televised address joined by influential leaders of opposition parties and religious groups. Among those who spoke after Sisi were opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei, the sheikh of Al-Azhar mosque and the Coptic pope. Leaders of the Islamist Nour party also joined the announcement.
• Morsi is being held at the defence ministry, Brotherhood spokesman Gehad El-Haddad told Reuters. He said the president's aides were being held at the Republican Guard barracks where Morsi spent his final day in office defying calls for him to resign.
• US president Barack Obama has ordered a review of US aid to Egypt but refrained from describing the ousting as a coup d'état, UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon and EU foreign affairs and the EU's high representative for foreign affairs, Baroness Ashton, have voiced their concern at the situation but also refrained from describing the events as a coup.
• The death toll has risen to at least 14, after Morsi supporters and the military clashed in areas around the country. Two spokesmen for the Muslim Brotherhood described an attack on a rally in Cairo, which was later downplayed by reporters who visited the scene.
• A crackdown on media reporting has been criticised, after at least four television stations, who were covering the growing demonstrations of Muslim Brotherhood supporters were shut down, including an offshoot of al-Jazeera called al-Jazeera Misr, which was raided, and its journalists arrested.
• It has been reported that 300 arrest warrants have been issued for Muslim Brotherhood members.