Egypt’s new cabinet sworn in by President Sisi
The new Egyptian government has been sworn in, following the resignation of the previous cabinet over a corruption scandal.
The swearing-in ceremony in Cairo on Saturday was attended by President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
The new administration is headed by Sharif Ismail as prime minister. Ismail had served as the petroleum minister in the previous cabinet.
The new cabinet has 33 members including three women and 16 newcomers, while them ministers of interior, justice, defense, finance and investment remain in their positions.
Ismail is a veteran technocrat who joined the cabinet in 2013. He was one of the more popular ministers of the previous administration, especially after Italy's Eni SpA oil company announced last month that it had discovered the "largest-ever" oil field in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Egypt.
In his first comments after taking over as the new Egyptian premier, Ismail said that the new government “does not have a magic wand,” and that “it will take some time to solve some of the problems.”
The government of the former prime minster, Ibrahim Mehleb, stepped down on September 12 after Agriculture Minister Salah Helal was arrested as part of a corruption investigation.
Local media censured Mehleb and his ministers for incompetence and not heeding the public's demand. The last cabinet was also criticized for delays in economic projects.
The governments in Egypt have long faced corruption allegations.
In a separate development on Saturday, Sisi also appointed Nabil Sadeq as the country’s chief prosecutor after Sadeq's predecessor Hisham Barakat was killed in a bombing in a Cairo neighborhood more than two months ago.
Egypt has also seen numerous deadly attacks carried out by Takfiri militants linked to the Daesh terrorist group since July 2013.
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