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PRESIDENT Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi swore in a new government at the weekend, just a week after the previous cabinet resigned amid a corruption probe.
The new government, headed by former oil minister Sherif Ismail, took office after state-friendly media slammed the performance of his predecessor Ibrahim Mehleb and prosecutors began investigating several officials for allegedly receiving over £650,000 in bribes.
Mr Mehleb and his ministers were accused of incompetence and being out of touch with the public.
Mr Sissi told the new government to “double the pace of work and finish national projects on time.”
He is overseeing a series of ambitious projects to revive the economy, including building roads and housing and expanding the Suez Canal.
Mr Ismail was among the most celebrated ministers in the former cabinet, especially after Italy’s Eni said last month that it had discovered the “largest ever” oil field in the Mediterranean Sea off Egypt’s coast.
