Cairo: Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El Sisi has appointed chancellor Hamada El Sawy as the new prosecutor-general, today.
El Sawi, who was president of the Cairo Court of Appeals, succeeds Nabil Sadek, in office since September 2015.
Sadek became prosecutor-general after his predecessor Hisham Barakat had been killed in a car bombing in June 2015.