Cairo has fallen quiet after yesterday’s crackdown on Islamist protesters by security forces which ended with the deaths of at least 421 people.
Baroness Ashton, the European Union’s foreign policy and security chief, has met with ousted president Mohammed Morsi for “in-depth” discussions on bringing calm and preventing further violence in Egypt
More than 100 people have been killed and hundreds more injured at a protest in Cairo in support of ousted President Mohammed Morsi.
Violence has erupted in Cairo once more with seven people being killed in clashes between security forces and Muslim Brotherhood Morsi-supporters in the Egyptian capital.
Though the Egyptian military is painting itself as a guardian of stability and democracy, there is ample reason to believe it will bring neither.