Egypt on the brink as Mubarak refuses to resign
Protesters have vowed to hold their biggest day of demonstrations yet as Egypt teeters on the brink following Hosni Mubarak’s failure to resign as president last night.
Protesters have vowed to hold their biggest day of demonstrations yet as Egypt teeters on the brink following Hosni Mubarak’s failure to resign as president last night.
State television has confirmed that Hosni Mubarak will address Egypt this evening at 8pm GMT, with reports emanating tonight that the president will resign, ending 30 years in power.
Egypt, like many other places in the Middle East, is entering a new phase, where the Muslim Brotherhood, just like Mubarak, are increasingly viewed as ugly ghosts of the past.
The model does indicate that there are grounds for optimism in Tunisia. The proportion of its working age adults who are young adults is xxx, which translates to a probability of liberal democracy of 0.48, or around one in two, similar to Chile’s probability as it democratised. Meanwhile Egypt, with its young-adult proportion of 0.48, translates to a probability of liberal democracy of 0.31 – less than one in three.
All trains and internal state-airline flights across Egypt have been cancelled ahead of calls for a million-strong march in Cairo tomorrow, reports Seph Brown.