LATEST: Video — Photojournalist Films Own Death in Monday’s Clashes
Several hundred pro-Morsi supporters, based at the main sit-in at Rabaa El-Adewaya Square in north Cairo, marched late Wednesday to the Ittihadiya Presidential Palace in Heliopolis.
The protesters, returning to the sit-in early Thursday, condemned Monday’s killings of about 50 pro-Morsi demonstrator by security forces in clashes in front of Republican Guards Headquarters.
The march passed without violence, and more rallies are planned. The pro-Morsi National Alliance to Support Legitimacy –has called for a million-man march in Cairo on Friday to demand that the President, deposed by the military on 3 July, be reinstated after a “coup against democratic legitimacy”.
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Egypt — Ex-Minister Claims Less Than 2 Months Supply Of Imported Wheat Left
Egypt’s former Minister of Supplies, Bassem Ouda, told Reuters on Thursday that the country has less than two months’ supply of imported wheat — 500,000 tonnes — left in its stocks.
Egypt usually imports about 10 million tonnes a year.
Reuters writes:
Egypt is the world’s largest importer of wheat, half of which it distributes to its 84 million people in the form of heavily subsidised bread. Although it also grows its own wheat, it needs huge quantities of foreign wheat with higher gluten content to make flour suitable for bread.
Video — Photojournalist Films Own Death in Monday’s Clashes
One of the 51 victims in Monday’s fighting, as security forces fired on supporters of President Morsi, was Ahmed Assem, a photojournalist for the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice newspaper.
This is Assem’s last video, apparently filming the soldier who killed him.
The New York Times summarises the reactions of Assem’s family.
