In a nod to the revolutionary youth groups that engineered the 2011 uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak and the massive protests that preceded Morsi’s ouster, Mansour renamed the justice portfolio the transitional justice and national reconciliation ministry and gave it to Mohammed el-Mahdi, a career judge.Īt least seven people were killed and 261 injured in the clashes in four different locations in Cairo, according to Khaled el-Khateeb, the head of the Health Ministry’s emergency and intensive care department. from 1999-2008, becomes foreign minister. Nabil Fahmy, who was Egypt’s ambassador to the U.S. The Morsi-appointed interior minister, Mohammed Ibrahim, remains in his post, in charge of the police. The Cabinet also includes three Christians, including one of the three women, Environment Minister Laila Rashed Iskander. Most past governments for decades have had at most two women in them. Women have a somewhat higher profile, with three ministries - including the powerful information and health ministries. The new government, sworn in by interim President Adly Mansour, reflects the largely liberal, secular bent of the factions who backed el-Sissi’s removal of Morsi. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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