Several hundred supporters of Egypt's deposed president are protesting near the cabinet building in central Cairo against the country's new interim government, Belfast Telegraph said.

The demonstrators say the new leadership is illegitimate and demand that ousted president Mohammed Morsi be reinstated.

Egypt's new 34-member cabinet, sworn in with interim president Adly Mansour, features several prominent figures from the country's liberal and secular factions, as well as three women and three Christians. There are no ministers from Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood or other Islamist groups.

Earlier this week clashes between police and Morsi supporters left at least seven people dead. More than 260 people were injured in the violence in four different locations in Cairo.

The interim government is part of a military-backed transition plan following the July 3 coup that deposed Morsi, Egypt's first freely elected president.

Morsi supporters accuse the military of carrying out a coup that has destroyed Egypt's democracy.