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Morsi Supporters Clashes With Police in Egypt
 
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Tue, 13 Aug 2013   ||   Nigeria,
 

From Cairo, CEOAFRICA.com gathered that supporters of deposed President Mohammed Morsi are fighting residents and police.

According to further reports, the fighting occurred near the Ministry of Religious Endowments, as Police used tear gas to disperse the crowd. Morsy supporters also protested outside several government ministries earlier Tuesday.

The protests which started after Egypt's military overthrown Morsy in a coup last month have accounted for the death of over one hundred people and thousands have been injured in recent weeks, either in clashes between opposing protesters or in clashes between protesters and Egyptian security forces.

Sources also disclosed that for weeks, Morsy supporters have set up two massive makeshift camps in Cairo to protest the coup. The people packed into the camps refuse to budge until Morsy is reinstated, and the sites have morphed into cities within a city.

Morsy became Egypt's first democratically elected president in 2012, a year after popular protests forced President Hosni Mubarak to resign and end his three-decade rule.

But a year into Morsy's term, many Egyptians wanted him out, too. They said the Western-educated Islamist, aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood movement was not inclusive and they said he had failed to deliver on the people's aspirations for freedom and social justice.

 

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