CAIRO (AFP) - (AFP) - Six months after the uprising that toppled Egypt's president Hosni Mubarak, the former strongman who is in custody in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh remains a thorn in the country's side.
The trial of Mubarak and his two sons, which is scheduled for August 3, remains a huge source of tension and the state of his health is shrouded by confusion and contradictory stat [...]

CAIRO (AFP) - (AFP) - Hundreds of protesters were still camped out in Cairo's Tahrir Square Sunday following a night of bloody clashes with rival demonstrators loyal to the ruling military council, an AFP reporter said.
Fierce battles erupted in the Abassaya neighbourhood after anti-regime protesters were blocked from reaching the headquarters of the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces ( [...]

CAIRO (AFP) - (AFP) - Egypt's military ruler stressed on Saturday the army's commitment to democracy, but the council he heads accused protesters who spearheaded the popular revolt that overthrew president Hosni Mubarak of driving a wedge between the army and the people
Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, the head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) and Mubarak's longtime defence minis [...]

CAIRO (AFP) - (AFP) - Hundreds of Egyptian protesters gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday to push for reforms, as Islamists held a separate demonstration calling for stability.
Pro-democracy activists had called for a rally in Tahrir Square -- the epicentre of protests that toppled president Hosni Mubarak -- after a cabinet reshuffle failed to satisfy their demands.
Sheikh Mazhar Shahe [...]

CAIRO (AFP) - (AFP) - New ministers in a sweeping reshuffle of Egypt's cabinet were sworn in before the military ruler on Thursday, as the prime minister sought to appease protesters over the pace of reform.
In his first address after the shuffle, Prime Minister Essam Sharaf vowed to fulfill the demands of the protesters camped out in Cairo's Tahrir Square since July 8.
The premier [...]

CAIRO (AFP) - (AFP) - Egypt's interior minister ordered on Tuesday that 54 police officers on trial for killing protesters be transferred to desk jobs in the ministry, security sources said, rather than suspending them.
Although on trial, the officers are free on bail and working in between hearings. Others, including former interior minister Habib al-Adli, are either in prison awai [...]

CAIRO (AFP) - (AFP) - Egypt's Prime Minister Essam Sharaf, who was hospitalised overnight for exhaustion, will spend the day resting and then finalise a new cabinet, the government said on Tuesday.
The new ministers were meant to be sworn in on Monday, but the ceremony was postponed for a day amid protests over the embattled premier's choice of ministers.
Then Sharaf, 59, was brief [...]

CAIRO (AFP) - (AFP) - Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf on Monday postponed the swearing-in of a new cabinet intended to deflect anger over the pace of reform as protesters said the shakeup did not go far enough.
Sharaf, who heads a caretaker government after a revolt toppled strongman Hosni Mubarak in February, had hoped the sweeping reshuffle would persuade the protesters to end a 10-day- [...]

CAIRO (AFP) - (AFP) - The health ministry on Sunday denied a report that Egypt's ailing former president Hosni Mubarak had fallen into a "full coma," two weeks before he is due to go on trial for murder and corruption.
"The former president is in a full coma after his health suddenly deteriorated," state television quoted Mubarak's lawyer as saying.
But Deputy Health Minister Adel [...]

CAIRO (AFP) - (AFP) - Egypt's Prime Minister Essam Sharaf on Sunday appointed Mohammed Kamel Amr as the new foreign minister, as he pushed forward with a sweeping cabinet reshuffle in a bid to appease protesters angry over the pace of reform.
Amr, who was previously Egypt's ambassador to Saudi Arabia and has worked at the World Bank, will replace Mohammed al-Orabi, who resigned late [...]