Protesters across Egypt kept up the pressure for the immediate removal of Hosni Mubarak, after rejecting his weekend appointment of a new government and the intelligence chief Omar Suleiman as vice-president.
Opposition parties insisted that the new faces were part of the same undemocratic and corrupt regime they had been battling since the eruption of protests on Tuesday.
Thousands descended on Sunday on Cairo’s Tahrir square, the focal point of the uprising sweeping the nation, undeterred by a curfew and buzzing helicopters – and even at one point fighter jets that flew overhead. The regime’s opponents said they were forming a committee to negotiate with the army, the power that appears to be calling the shots.