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Egypt has appointed Abdullah Ghorab as oil minister, replacing long-serving Sameh Fahmy who was removed from his post in late February, the Cabinet announced

p>Egypt has appointed Abdullah Ghorab as oil minister, replacing long-serving Sameh Fahmy who was removed from his post in late February, the Cabinet announced

Ghorab was previously chief executive of state-owned Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation.

Fahmy, who stepped down on 22 February, had been replaced briefly by another oil official, Mamoud Latif Amer.