Cairo: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Sunday ordered a minor cabinet reshuffle, replacing two ministers in the five-year-old government of Ahmad Nadif.
Mubarak replaced Youssri Al Jamal, who was scathingly criticised in the local media for the decline in education standards, with Ahmad Zaki Badr, the president of the government-run Ain Shams University in Cairo.
Mubarak, meanwhile, appointed Ala'a Fahmi, the chief of the national post service, as minister of transport, reported the official Middle East News Agency.
Last October, Mohammad Lutfi Mansour quit his post as minister of transport, days after two passenger trains collided south of Cairo. The crash left 19 dead and brought Mansour under heavy criticism in parliament and the local media. The post remained vacant until Sunday.
Also on Sunday, Mubarak replaced five provincial governors including two in the Sinai Peninsula, which has recently been the scene of turmoil due to Egypt's construction of a controversial underground barrier along its border with the Gaza Strip.
