Canada sending new ambassador, deputy manpower minister sacked

MOVES- Canada’s new ambassador to Egypt met on Friday with Amb. Ahmed Abu Zeid, Egypt’s envoy to Ottawa, Abu Zeid said on Twitter. Louis Dumas (LinkedIn | bio | Twitter), who served in Cairo in the 1990s, is ambassador-designate and replaces Jess Dutton.

MOVES- Assistant to the manpower minister Yasser El Sherbiny was sacked for a Facebook post ridiculing Kuwait’s new emir over the weekend, cabinet said in a statement. El Sherbiny’s post came as anti-Egyptian sentiment in Kuwait, often directed towards Egyptian expats, has recently bubbled to the surface.