Egypt’s former prime minister dies at 67

FORMER Egyptian prime minister Sherif Ismail, who served during President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s first term in office, died Saturday at the age of 67.

“I mourn with deep sorrow a virtuous man among Egypt’s best, a man in whom the nation’s conscience was embodied, the former prime minister, the honourable Dr Sherif Ismail,” the president wrote on Facebook yesterday.