Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi paid his respects Wednesday at the military funeral of former leader Hosni Mubarak, whose three decades of strong-arm rule ended in the Arab Spring protests of 2011.
The presidential office declared three days of mourning for the veteran head of state dubbed a modern-day “pharaoh”, who died aged 91 in a Cairo military hospital Tuesday after years spent in relative seclusion.
Mubarak’s mixed legacy is that of an autocrat who ran a police state, employed emergency powers and rigged elections, and of a guarantor of stability who battled Islamist militants and kept close ties with Western powers.
Source: Guardian Newsapaper
