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<\/a> Osama Heikal has resigned as Minister of State for Information<\/strong>, citing \u201cpersonal reasons\u201d in a letter handed over<\/a> to Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly. Heikal was censured by MPs in February<\/a> over the ministry\u2019s slow progress on major projects, public comments he made that MPs said were \u201cexploited by foreign media,\u201d and the misuse of public funds since the ministry was reconstituted in 2019<\/a>. Heikal\u2019s is the first resignation of a cabinet member from the current line-up of ministers since former Transport Minister Hisham Arafat stepped down in the aftermath of the Ramses train disaster<\/a> in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Osama Heikal has resigned as Minister of State for Information, citing \u201cpersonal reasons\u201d in a letter handed over to Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly. Heikal was censured by MPs in February over the ministry\u2019s slow progress on major projects, public comments he made that MPs said were \u201cexploited by foreign media,\u201d and the misuse of public […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10119],"tags":[633,3743,127],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-565695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speed-round-politics","tag-enterprisepm","tag-osama-heikal","tag-politics","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"d0d62c63-0cd9-4224-93ed-5407e37938fe","is_powered_by":true,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[565688],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"\nHeikal exits stage left - EnterpriseAM Egypt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2021\/04\/25\/heikal-exits-stage-left\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Heikal exits stage left\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Osama Heikal has resigned as Minister of State for Information, citing \u201cpersonal reasons\u201d in a letter handed over to Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly. 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