Egypt names interim Prime Minister & Vice-President

The Egyptian army has ended days of inactivity in naming top officials in parliament as they named an interim prime minister & vice-president on Tuesday.

CBC News reports that economist, Hazem el-Biblawi & former Nobel Peace Prize winner, Mohamed ElBaradei were named Egyptian prime minister & vice-president respectively.

The announcement made by the military backed interim president is one of many initiatives taken to bring stability back to the most populous country in the Arab League.

An outline to elect a new president and to draft a new constitution was presented with an ambitious view to resolve this instability within the next year.

Islamists, however, continue to take to the streets protesting the military's ousting of now former president Mohammed Morsi.

Anti-Morsi supporters claim the change was a result of a popular uprising and not a military coup.

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