Egypt counts cost of turmoil as protesters remain undaunted

EGYPTIANS counted the economic cost of more than two weeks of turmoil yesterday as protesters on Cairo’s Tahrir Square looked ahead to their next big push to oust President Hosni Mubarak tomorrow.

A day after Egyptians staged one of their biggest protests in the capital, Tahrir Square remained crowded, although no demonstration had been scheduled.

Karam Mohamed, from Beheira province in the Nile Delta, said the protests were growing. “We are putting pressure on them little by little and in the end they will fall.”