Kamal Ganzouri自1982年担任埃及计划部长，总统是侯赛因·穆巴拉克。1996年他担任总理一职，他在这个职位上做了4年，直到后来与总统不合，总统指控他没有管理好国家经济。Ganzouri的内阁引入一些经济自由政策，许多埃及人仍把他看做不腐败的官员。他关注低收入人群的利益，被称为“穷人的总理”。

Parliamentary elections are due on Monday despite the past week's clashes between protesters and security forces.

尽管过去一周，抗议者和安全部队仍有冲突，议会选举将于周一如期举行。

The Arab League has given Syria 24 hours to agree to allow an observer mission into the country or face sanctions. Arab foreign ministers meeting in Cairo said that if Syria refused, the league's economic arm would meet on Saturday to vote on sanctions. These could include stopping flights to Syria and freezing the country's assets. However, the ministers stopped short of endorsing a call by the French foreign minister for humanitarian corridors to help aid reach civilians.

阿盟给叙利亚24小时的期限，要求其同意观察团进驻本国，否则将被制裁。阿盟外长与会开罗，表示，如果叙利亚拒绝，阿盟的经济官员周六将商谈制裁一事。这包括：停止飞往叙利亚的航班，冻结该国资产。然而，由于法国外长提议建立“人道主义走廊”，为平民提供帮助，制裁计划暂搁。