mobanmarketCairo: The Egyptian parliament Sunday approved a government shake-up proposed by President Abdul Fattah Al Sissi, reinstating the Information Ministry.
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Osama Heikal, the head of the parliament’s culture and media committee, has been named to head the Information Ministry that was scrapped in 2014.
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Ministers of civil aviation, social solidarity, agriculture, industry and parliamentary affairs have been replaced in the cabinet reshuffle, state media said.
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Ministers of the key ministries of defence, the interior and foreign affairs remain unchanged.
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Ministries of tourism and antiquities have, meanwhile, been merged into one ministry to be headed by Khaled Al Anani, the antiquities minister in the outgoing government.
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Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouli, appointed in the post in June 2018, is kept as the head of the new government.
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The 53-year-old premier is also put in charge of investment and administrative reform.
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Al Sissi is expected later Sunday to swear in the new ministers at the presidential palace in Cairo.
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Since he took office in 2014, Al Sissi has been keen to re-establish security in Egypt and heal the economy battered by the unrest that followed the 2011 uprising. Over the past five years, he has launched a string of mega-projects aimed at revitalising the economy and attracting investors to the country of nearly 100 million people.
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