At a brief speech broadcast on the night of Friday to Saturday by the Egyptian national television, President Hosni Mubarak announced the sacking of the government of Ahmed Nazif and announced the formation of a new cabinet on Saturday.
While the day was chaotic for power, the Head of State also dropped ballast and promised "further measures" to democracy, without giving further details.Hosni Mubarak has finally reaffirmed its determination to ensure the stability of the country, noting that the boundary between democracy and chaos was thin and that the difficulties should not be solved by violence.
Deadliest day in the Egyptian streets
The statements by Egyptian President intervene after a day of demonstrations - violently repressed - unprecedented in the country. The latest assessment shows that at least twenty dead in the different cities of Egypt, on Friday.Five people were killed and hundreds injured in Cairo to Suez, clashes with police left 13 dead and 75 wounded when six people and Alexandria regrets Mansoura two.
"The streets are delivered to the protesters. (...) It all civil society that manifests here in Cairo," says Karim Hakiki, a FRANCE 24 special correspondents in the Egyptian capital. On Friday, the fourth day of protests, hundreds of thousands of people were in the streets. The police used tear gas, water cannons and rubber bullets to try to disperse the protesters.
Protesters set fire to the headquarters of the National Democratic Party (NDP in power).Earlier in the day, two police stations in the capital were torched. In the evening, demonstrators and security forces continued to clash in the main streets of Cairo transformed into a battlefield, despite the introduction of a curfew in the evening. Young or old, protesters demanding the departure of President Hosni Mubarak.
The army in the streets of Cairo
The authority has appealed to the army to support police, overwhelmed by the protesters. Yigal Saadoun, also special envoy FRANCE 24 in Cairo, confirms "having seen the units in the Egyptian army at a short distance from Tahrir Square, where the movement began.""We saw military armored vehicles enter Cairo," he added.
The curfew was imposed in three major cities of Egypt: Cairo, Alexandria and Suez.
The opponent Mohamed ElBaradei, former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), took part in demonstrations. He said he was prepared to ensure the political transition in the event of departure of Hosni Mubarak. Since Thursday, it was forbidden to leave Cairo.Some sources report that it would be under house arrest.
Internet and telephone connections were still cut on Friday evening, while the international community, including the European Union and the United States, called Cairo to show "restraint" and respect the rights of Egyptians.
Find below the liveblogging by FRANCE24.com insisted Friday.
