{"id":17466,"date":"2024-04-02T16:58:44","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T13:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=17466"},"modified":"2024-04-02T16:58:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T13:58:44","slug":"egypts-sisi-sworn-in-for-third-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/02\/egypts-sisi-sworn-in-for-third-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt&#8217;s Sisi Sworn in for Third Term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was sworn in Tuesday before parliament for his third term in office.<br \/>\nIn power for the past decade, Sisi is set to remain president until 2030, after winning a December election with 89.6 percent of the vote against three relative unknowns.<br \/>\nThe oath also marked the inauguration of Egypt&#8217;s New Administrative Capital, located in the desert east of Cairo, local media reported.<br \/>\nSisi rose to power in 2013. He was elected president the following year and then again in 2018, both times with around 97 percent of the vote.<br \/>\nFor the past two years, Egypt has struggled to contain the fallout of a punishing economic crisis that has seen the currency lose two-thirds of its value and inflation soar to a record 40 percent last year.<br \/>\nIn the first quarter of 2024, however, Egypt saw an influx of over $50 billion in loans and investment deals, which Cairo has said will ease dire foreign currency shortages and revitalize the economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was sworn in Tuesday before parliament for his third term in office. In power for the past decade, Sisi is set to remain president until 2030, after winning a December election with 89.6 percent of the vote against three relative unknowns. The oath also marked the inauguration of Egypt&#8217;s New &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17468,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17466\/revisions\/17468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}