Deadly Cairo clashes over Coptic protest - Middle East. Egypt's Mubarak 'under house arrest' - Middle East. Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's ousted president, has been put under house arrest along with his family, according to an Egyptian military statement. Egypt's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces on Monday said that the former leader and his family would not be allowed to leave the country and denied reports that Mubarak had fled to Saudi Arabia. "There is no truth to reports that former president Hosni Mubarak has left Egypt for Tabuk in Saudi Arabia," the council said in a statement on the social networking site Facebook. "He is under house arrest, with his family, in Egypt. " The military council took power on February 11 after Mubarak was pushed from office following 18 days of massive street protests against his 30-year rule.
Egypt's prosecutor general on March 3 denied media reports that Mubarak was in Saudi Arabia, insisting that he was at his family home in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. Cairo to recognise South Sudan - Africa. Cairo will recognise South Sudan as an independent state, Nabil Elaraby, the Egyptian foreign minister, has said during a visit to Khartoum. Elaraby is in the Sudanese capital as part of a visiting Egyptian delegation, headed by Essam Sharaf, the prime minister. The visit to Sudan is Sharaf’s first abroad since taking office in the wake of Egypt’s uprising that toppled the regime of Hosni Mubarak.
"Sudan intends to be the first to recognise Juba (capital of South Sudan) and Egypt intends to be the second to recognise the south," Elaraby said on Sunday, two months after the region voted overwhelmingly in a referendum to secede from Khartoum. Elaraby also said Egypt would introduce a new proposal to Nile Basin nations to try to overcome a stalemate on sharing the river's waters. South Sudan has not declared a position on sharing Nile waters but most analysts believe it is likely to side with its east African allies. The new Egypt: Leaving women behind - Features. Egypt approves constitutional changes - Middle East. Egypt Youths Play New Role - Driving a Revolt. Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Mohamed ElBaradei, the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, was surrounded by reporters as he arrived in Cairo on Thursday.
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