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Sisi keeps key ministers in new government - state news agency

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi   in Cairo, April 23, 2015. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo, April 23, 2015. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
The state news agency MENA broke the news as the president tries to rebuild an economy battered by Islamist militant violence.
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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi kept his finance, investment and interior ministers in a new government sworn in on Saturday.

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Sisi named former head of the state oil company Tarek al-Mullah as petroleum minister, charged with easing the country's energy crisis and attracting more foreign investment in a strategic sector. Mullah succeeds Sherif Ismail, who became prime minister.

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