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LIVE COVERAGE: Rolling updates on Egypt, live video of Tahrir Square
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Islamist Mohamed Morsy of the Muslim Brotherhood was declared Egypt’s first democratic president on Sunday by the state election committee, which said he had defeated former general Ahmed Shafik with 51.7 percent of last weekend’s run-off vote.
He succeeds Hosni Mubarak, who was overthrown 16 months ago after a popular uprising. The military council which has ruled the biggest Arab nation since then has this month curbed the powers of the presidency, meaning the head of state will have to work closely with the army on a planned democratic constitution.
READ MORE: Islamist Morsy wins Egyptian presidency with 52 percent
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An Egyptian holds a candle and at Tahrir Square, the focal point of the Egyptian uprising, in Cairo December 31, 2011. Egyptians held a ceremony in Cairo’s Tahrir Square to commemorate those killed during and after the uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak’s regime. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
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Thousands of Egyptian protest in Cairo’s Tahrir Square in the evening hours of July 8, 2011. The nationwide demonstrations were called to defend the uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak and to show anger at the new military rulers’ slow pace of reforms. (Mohamed Hossam)
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It is tempting for a nation and for a society to feel overwhelmed by all this. Today’s Egypt should not. These are all surmountable challenges, especially if the country retains its unity, commonality of purpose, and purity of aspiration.
It may also be tempting for some of you here to feel powerless, believing that your own potential contributions pale in comparison to these significant societal challenges. You should not.
Every single one of you has the ability to make a difference in today’s Egypt. Indeed, many of you already do so, day in and day out.
You maintain the momentum for positive change. You work hard to counter the huge disparities in income and wealth, and the extremes in access to education, health and other basic social needs. And you are unwilling — and rightly so — to see millions of your countrymen and countrywomen condemned to a life of poverty, human degradation and despair.
All of you are facilitators of a better tomorrow for Egypt, of the “new Egypt.”
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Police fire tear gas in Tahrir via @JonathanRashad
(Source: neighborhoodr-cairo)
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Egypt protesters clash with police. Security forces are firing tear gas to disperse around 3,000 protesters in Tahrir Square.
Egyptian security forces are firing tear gas at around 3,000 protesters, some of whom are throwing rocks, in Cairo’s Tahrir Square.The clashes began near the interior ministry on Tuesday evening between family members of the more than 840 people who were killed during the Egyptian uprising in February.
Tahrir Square was the epicentre of the nearly three-week-long uprising that ousted former president Hosni Mubarak on February 11.
Al Jazeera’s Ayman Mohyeldin reporting from Cairo said at least eight people had been injured.
“Police have been using tear gas to try and disperse the crowd and push them back, ” Moheyldin said. “It is an example of the tension that still exists between the police and ordinary Egyptians.”
According to eyewitnesses, protesters at Tahrir Square chanted: “the people demand the fall of the field marshal,” a reference to Hussein Tantawi, the head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which took power when Mubarak stepped down.
Families of those killed are frustrated with what they say is the slow prosecution of security officers believed responsible for the deaths of protesters during the uprising.
Habib al-Adly, Egypt’s former interior minister, was sentenced to a 12-year prison sentence on corruption charges in May, but he and other officials are still being charged for killing protesters.
(via neighborhoodr-cairo)
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