Mass rally in Cairo against military rule

Cairo's Tahrir Square is once again filling with protesters despite reports that the country's military rulers has appointed a new prime minister in an apparent concession to activists' demands for a civilian government.

State media on Friday named Kamal el Ganzouri as the country's new prime minister as protesters in the capital called for another "million-man march" in protests dubbed "the Friday of the last chance".

Ganzouri is an economist who previously served as Egyptian prime minister under former president Hosni Mubarak between 1996 and 1999.

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