{"id":467,"date":"2012-08-12T16:44:23","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T16:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/2012\/08\/12\/egypts-leader-dismisses-army-chief-hussein-tantawi\/"},"modified":"2012-08-12T16:44:23","modified_gmt":"2012-08-12T16:44:23","slug":"egypts-leader-dismisses-army-chief-hussein-tantawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/egypts-leader-dismisses-army-chief-hussein-tantawi\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt\u2019s leader dismisses army chief Hussein Tantawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi ordered Defence Minister Hussein Tantawi (pictured) \u201cto retire\u201d in a shock announcement on Sunday before cancelling the army\u2019s constitutional declaration, which gave top generals military wide-ranging powers. <\/p>\n<p> <!--more--> A spokesman says Egypt\u2019s president has ordered the defense minister and chief of staff to retire and has canceled the military-declared constitutional amendments that gave top generals wide powers.<\/p>\n<p>President Mohammed Morsi also appointed a senior judge, Mahmoud Mekki, as vice president.<\/p>\n<p>The decisions announced Sunday are effective immediately. Spokesman Yasser Ali said in a news conference aired on state TV that Morsi appointed a new defense minister, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi.<\/p>\n<p>He replaces Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, who headed the military council that ruled Egypt for 17 months after Hosni Mubarak\u2019s ouster in February 2011. Tantawi was defense minister for nearly two decades under Mubarak.<\/p>\n<p>The military council\u2019s No. 2, Chief of Staff Sami Annan, was also ordered to retire.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/20120812-egypt-president-mohamed-mursi-retires-defence-minister-hussein-tantawi\" title=\"www.france24.com\">France24.com <\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi ordered Defence Minister Hussein Tantawi (pictured) \u201cto retire\u201d in a shock&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}