Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Egypt: revolt continues, confusion reigns

Hosni Mubarak's opponents have spent another night in downtown Cairo on Monday and vowed to protest until the departure of the Egyptian president, whose fate now seems to depend on the army. "The army must choose between Egypt and Mubarak," said a banner deployed on Tahrir Square in the center of the capital, where protesters shared food with soldiers deployed to restore order.

In the morning, the army had deployed en masse in the streets of Cairo when no policeman was visible - until they were ubiquitous. Once the place was filled with helicopters and fighter planes flew at low altitude instead. According to Le Monde journalist present there, the army fired on the crowd, touching many people who were evacuated by ambulance.

She could not know if they were injured or killed. Other cities have experienced significant events in Alexandria, Suez, Ismailia and in Mahalla. The role of the army continues to raise questions and information flow are contradictory. Has received orders to fire on the crowd? Has she refused to do so? Hosni Mubarak has also asked Prime Minister-designate Ahmed Shafik, to the "restoration of calm its priority," during a meeting an hour and a half with the new Prime Minister in the presence of the new Vice-President, Omar Suleiman, the official MENA news agency reported.

The composition of the new government has still not been announced. Earlier in the day, he said that Mr. Mubarak was scheduled to leave power "today" in order that he be replaced by a government of national unity. "Everyone in Egypt says loud and clear: he needs to leave today," said former Director General of the International Energy Agency (IAEA) in an interview with CNN.

He also said he had a popular mandate for policy and negotiate the formation of such a government. A leader of the Muslim Brotherhood announced earlier that several opposition forces had agreed to support Mr. ElBaradei that he negotiates with the government in Cairo. The information minister, who resigned on Saturday along with the rest of the government, withdrew his license to the chain.

Journalists no longer have permission to work, their accreditation has been canceled. The rolling news television based in Qatar has spent the last few days, a large part of its antenna to the situation in Egypt. It is highly followed since January 25, the first day of event Journalists chain present in Egypt described a complex situation, but attempted to continue their coverage of events.

Al-Jazeera has continued, after a short break, to broadcast live images of the event in Cairo, with emergency equipment. But its correspondents do not broadcast more images of Alexandria and Suez. "Do not worry, Al-Jazeera has a habit of being banned by governments. We will find a way to remove the information for you," summarized Dan Nolan, Special Envoy of the chain in Cairo, on Twitter.

Internet is still cut in the country. The latest Internet service provider that worked, Noor, was arrested a while, but it was accessible again Sunday night. It is used by the Cairo Stock Exchange, banks and large enterprises. Cell phones work partially, but not SMS. King Abdullah II of Jordan Sunday contacted the Egyptian president to "investigate the situation." Beijing has expressed concern over the situation in Egypt.

Silent until then, Nicolas Sarkozy has reacted to the situation Saturday night. The French president, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister, David Cameron, issued a joint statement saying they "deeply concerned by the events" in Egypt: "We urge President Mubarak to avoid at all price the use of violence against unarmed civilians and call on demonstrators to exercise their right peacefully.

" As the Secretary of State for Youth, Bougrab Jeannette, who had asked on Saturday the resignation of President Mubarak, she was called to order by Prime Minister Francois Fillon. She issued a statement in which she recalled that "the position of France [had] been expressed by the President and the Prime Minister." Israel sent a confidential message to the United States and European countries asking them to support the stability of the Egyptian regime of Hosni Mubarak face a wave of protest, told Haaretz on Monday.

In this message, Israeli officials stress that it is "the best interests of the West" and "the entire Middle East to maintain the stability of the regime in Egypt," added the newspaper. The French group Lafarge announced Sunday its intention to repatriate its expatriates and their families present in Egypt, and the Crédit Agricole.

France Telecom also retrieves its expatriates and their families in Egypt, a score of people, said Monday a spokesman for the group. Libya, India, Greece, Turkey, Iraq, Japan, Saudi Arabia and Azerbaijan, including one citizen was killed Saturday in Cairo, have sent planes to ensure the repatriation of their nationals .

Israel has repatriated the families of its diplomats in Vienna trying to organize the return of the Austrians who are willing and Australia advised its citizens to leave the country. The Egyptian authorities on Sunday closed the crossing point with Gaza while demonstrations were spreading in Egypt to the border area and after the leak in the Palestinian territory of five Palestinian militants escaped from a prison in Cairo, reported responsible.

After six days of rebellion that killed at least one hundred twenty-five deaths and thousands injured, the government ordered police Sunday night to return to the streets of the country, she had suddenly deserted Friday. Bbc. en

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