{"id":6112,"date":"2013-07-07T08:25:12","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T08:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/elbaradei-tipped-as-interim-pm-for-egypt\/"},"modified":"2013-07-07T08:25:12","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T08:25:12","slug":"elbaradei-tipped-as-interim-pm-for-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/elbaradei-tipped-as-interim-pm-for-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"ElBaradei tipped as interim PM for Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nobel Peace laureate Mohamed ElBaradei was tipped Saturday as premier to help lead Egypt out of a deepening crisis, official sources said, after bloodshed followed the ouster of the country’s first freely elected president.<\/p>\n

The Tamarod movement, which engineered mass protests culminating in the overthrow of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi on Wednesday, made the announcement after talks with Egypt’s new caretaker leader.<\/p>\n

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“Interim president Adly Mansour has tasked Mohamed ElBaradei with forming a new government,” the official MENA news agency reported later.<\/p>\n

News of the appointment, which a military source confirmed to AFP, was greeted with cheers in Cairo’s Tahrir Square and Ittihadiya presidential palace, where opponents of Morsi set off firecrackers, frantically waved Egyptian flags and honked car horns.<\/p>\n

It came as the Muslim Brotherhood staged a new show of force to demand the military restore Morsi, after dozens of people died and hundreds more were injured in 24 hours of violence.<\/p>\n

Tamarod, which has called for demonstrations on Sunday to counter the Islamists, had nominated ElBaradei to represent it in negotiations with the military.<\/p>\n

ElBaradei, now 71, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005 for his work as the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency.<\/p>\n

He returned to Egypt in 2010 and became a prominent opponent of veteran strongman Hosni Mubarak in the lead-up to the 2011 uprising that overthrew him.<\/p>\n

Aya Hosni, a member of Tamarod’s central committee, told AFP that “the interim president and Tamarod had agreed on Mohamed ElBaradei’s nomination as prime minister”.<\/p>\n

The appointment came as an Islamist protest to demand the reinstatement of Morsi petered out at nightfall, following 24 hours of ferocious violence that killed 37 people and injured more than 1,400.<\/p>\n

Tears flowed freely as thousands of Morsi supporters mourned four members of the movement killed during protests the Brotherhood called to reject the coup.<\/p>\n

The imam told mourners gathered outside Cairo’s Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque, where the Islamists have camped for the past 10 days, to pray for the “martyrs of legitimacy”.<\/p>\n

Wearing green headbands, Islamists in their thousands, including many fully veiled women, waved Egyptian flags and pictures of the deposed president.<\/p>\n

Morsi, who has been in detention since overnight on Wednesday, had issued a defiant call for his supporters to protect his elected “legitimacy”, in a recorded speech aired hours after his removal.<\/p>\n

.Story updated as no official announcement has been made.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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