KENYA: Cabinet Dismissed

maintain stability of prices in the local market.Akhbar el-Youm website ran a page on July 3rd under the headline: "New faces and hot files."It recounted the top priorities for the new cabinet, mainly including the repeated power cuts during the summer, and the price hikes.The editor-in-chief of state-owned Al-Ahram newspaper, Gameel Afifi, called the new government a "government with difficult missions", as "it came at a truly difficult time in the world, where the global economy has been greatly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, then the Russia-Ukraine crisis, and then the Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip".Speaking to the state-run Nile News TV on July 3rd, Afifi said all these crises directly affected the Egyptian economy."So, this government has a major mission at the economic, investment and internal levels," he said.Pro-government TV anchor Ahmed Moussa urged the new government to put "rationalisation" at the top of its priorities."The mission of the new government is to make prices affordable," he said during his talk show 'On my responsibility', broadcast on the privately owned Sada el-Balad TV (3/7).(Sources as