Egypt to reshuffle 11 ministers: Prime minister says

Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Qandil has announced that 11 ministers would be changed in a cabinet reshuffle, including the country’s oil, higher education, and agriculture ministers.

Qandil said on Monday that the ministers will take the constitutional oath before President Mohamed Morsi on Tuesday, AFP reported.

Replacement of the current cabinet, including Qandil, with a government of “national unity” has been a longstanding demand of Egypt’s political opposition.

The opposition groups have accused the government of being dominated by Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood.

They also accuse Qandil of having mismanaged Egypt’s dire economy.

Egypt has witnessed continuing anti-government protests since Morsi took office last June. The opposition accuses the president of leading a dictatorial government and deviating from the 2011 revolution that toppled the Western-backed regime of the former Egyptian dictator, Hosni Mubarak.