Following a cabinet reshuffle, Egypt's Council of Ministers on Tuesday officially announced its final selections for the following ministerial portfolios:
Ahmed Shafiq as prime minister; Yehia al-Gamal as deputy PM; Ashraf Hatem as health minister; Amr Ezzat Salama as scientific research minister; Ahmed Gamal Eddin Mousa as education minister; Mahmoud Latif as petroleum minister; Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour as tourism minister; Gouda Abdel Khaleq as social solidarity minister; Ismail Fahmy as manpower minister; Maged Othman as communications minister; Safwat al-Nahas as human development minister; Georgette Qilliny as immigration minister; and Samir Sayad as higher education minister.
Those ministers who will stay on from the previous cabinet are Samiha Fawzy as industry minister; Ahmed Abul Gheit as foreign minister; Mamdouh Marei as justice minister; and Mahmoud Wagdy as interior minister.
The new minister of trade and investment, meanwhile, has yet to be announced.
Translated from the Arabic Edition.
