Officials from Mubarak regime return to Egypt's new government

By Al Jazeera, 21 September 2015
The new government will be headed by Prime Minister Sherif Ismail, the country's former petroleum minister [photo credit: EPA]
The new government will be headed by Prime Minister Sherif Ismail, the country's former petroleum minister [photo credit: EPA]
<p>President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi has sworn in a new government, one week after the previous Cabinet resigned amid a corruption probe,&nbsp;Egypt's state news agency reported. </p><p>The new government, headed by Prime Minister Sherif Ismail, a former petroleum minister, took office on Saturday, after state-friendly media had begun slamming his predecessor Ibrahim Mehleb, and the prosecution began investigating several officials for allegedly receiving over $1 million in bribes. </p><p>The 33-member Cabinet contains three women and 16 new members. Two of the newcomers, Education Minister Zaki Badr and Tourism Minister Hisham Zaazou, served in similar posts under Mubarak.</p> <p>The country's interior, justice, defence, finance and investment ministers, however, kept their posts. </p>
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