Abdel Fattah Saeed Hussein Khalil el-Sisi (born 19 November 1954) was the President of Egypt from 2014, succeeding Adly Mansour.
Biography[]
Abdel Fattah Saeed Hussein Khalil el-Sisi was born on 19 November 1954 in Cairo, Egypt. As a young man, he recalled hearing Christian church bells ringing and watching Egyptian Jews attend their synagogues unhindered, but this would soon disappear as radical Islam took over. el-Sisi attended the Egyptian Military Academy in 1977 and specialized in anti-tank and mortar warfare. In 2008 he was made Director of Military Intelligence and Reconaissance under Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak, but he was the first member of the Egyptian Army to reveal the government's forced virginity tests on female protesters. In 2012, after the Egyptian Revolution, the newly-elected President Mohamed Morsi appointed el-Sisi as a Colonel-General and the Chief-of-Staff of the Egyptian Army/Minister of Defense.
However, the crises of economics, electronics, and oil, the construction of an Ethiopian dam that blocked Egyptian water supplies, the worsening of the security of Egypt, and Morsi's declaration of complete power (he stated that all of his decisions would be final with no vote) led to June 2013 protests in Cairo. Morsi was forced out of office and el-Sisi was made the head of government. In December he was made "Man of the Year" due to his popularity and on 28 May 2014 he won 22,000,000 out of 23,000,000 votes in a landslide presidential election.
Sisi's tenure as President was astonishingly brilliant. He improved relations with Israel and aided them in their conflict with the Gaza Strip while also acting as mediator between Israel and the Hamas group, and he aided them in fighting the Sinai insurgency; Saudi Arabia donated $20,000,000,000 to assist Egypt after the overthrow of Morsi, proving their alliance with Egypt; Russia and Egypt discussed free trade and they already began to increase the imports of agriculture from each other's countries; he also put down the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist group in his country. However, the United States stopped training Egyptian troops and cut off their funds, although they eventually sent continued aid in millions of dollars. Sisi's crackdown on the Islamists led to condemnation from the USA, although a larger cause for worry was his relations with Russia.