The state needs to be more transparent when it comes time to shuffle governors and ministers, Mohamed Amin writes for Al Masry Al Youm. To do otherwise is to encourage the rumor mill, he argues. (Because as our friends in the West can tell us, there’s never rumors about who’s in or who’s out in a cabinet shuffle or presidential administration, right?) In a piece penned for Al Shorouk, opinion writer Emad El Din Hussein questions the ability of incoming governors drive make a difference when centralization of power in Cairo and the national government gives them few levers to pull.

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