Post-Mubarak interior minister appointed
CAIRO (Updated) - Egypt on Sunday named General Mansour el-Essawi as its new interior minister in a further sign that ousted President Hosni Mubarak's old guard were being removed from the cabinet.
Pro-democracy activists have demanded a purge of a cabinet where the key portfolios of defence, justice, interior and foreign affairs have been run by appointees of Mubarak, who was swept from power by mass protests on February 11.