Al Jazeera English
| Feb 2, 2013
After clashes broke out in Cairo's Tahrir Square, Egyptians were shocked by the brutal beating and killing of a 23-year-old man which was caught on live television. The actions of the police were condemned by the Interior Ministry calling it an 'i...
BBC Arabic
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Mosaic
| Jan 8, 2013
Egyptian Prime Minister Hesham Kandil met with an IMF delegation to discuss renewing an aid plan totaling $4.8 billion. A previous IMF loan offer to Egypt was suspended in December due to political unrest. BBC Arabic reports on the meeting as well...
Democracy Now!
| Nov 16, 2012
Israel is continuing to pound the Gaza Strip with air strikes amid fears it could soon launch a ground invasion. Israeli troops, tanks and armored personnel carriers are massing near the Palestinian territory. Israel said it launched 150 air strik...
Al Jazeera English
| Nov 16, 2012
Egypt's prime minister denounced Israeli aggression and pledged to seek a truce while on a solidarity visit to Gaza, during which explosions were heard despite talk of a temporary ceasefire. As Israeli tanks mass on the border, protests are planne...
Euronews
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Euronews
| Nov 16, 2012
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi sent a high-level delegation including his prime minister to Gaza Friday morning in an unprecedented show of support for Hamas as the Israeli offensive continues. Israel said it would pause the offensive during the...
Al Jazeera English
| Jul 10, 2012
Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court has issued a ruling to stop the president from reinstating the dissolved Islamist-led parliament. On Tuesday, President Mohamed Morsi made a decree which allowed the parliament to reconvene. The courts have no...
— Nov 25, 2011 at 12:11 pm
...and instability persist, they risk damaging the credibility of Egypt's first experiment with democratic rule. Several political groups have alre...
— Aug 2, 2012 at 04:42 am
...The new interior minister was named as Ahmed Gamal el-Din, a career policeman similar to those who held the job under Mubarak. He pledged to con...
— Sep 20, 2012 at 10:40 am
...Minister Hisham Kandil decided to appoint Alaa al-Hadidi as official spokesman of the prime minister's office, the Middle East News Agency (MENA...
— Nov 16, 2012 at 11:23 am
...13 civilians, among them seven children and a pregnant woman. A Hamas rocket killed three Israeli civilians a town north of Gaza, men and women ...
— Oct 2, 2012 at 07:17 am
"He [Ahmed Shafiq] faces charges of profiteering and facilitating illegal acquisition of state funds," said Adel Saeed, the spokesman for Egypt’s g...
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The Prime Minister of Egypt is the head of the Egyptian government. According to the constitution, the prime minister is the leader of the largest political party in the Egyptian Parliament.
In the late 1970s, Egypt had several cohabitation governments which proved to be unstable, due to the struggle arising between the president and the prime minister. From 1981 until 2011, the National Democratic Party had maintained a majority in the People’s Assembly and supplied the Egyptian president. The National Democratic Party was dissolved by the supreme administrative court on 16 April 2011, following the Egyptian uprising which eventually caused the resignation of Hosni Mubarak. Hesham Qandil was appointed the new prime minister of Egypt by Mohammed Morsi.
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