President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi attended a ceremony on Saturday marking the graduation of new classes from the Egyptian Military Academy and military colleges at the Military Academy’s headquarters in the New Capital.
The ceremony was attended by House of Representatives Speaker Hisham Badawi, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and Minister of Defence and Military Production Lieutenant General Ashraf Salem Zaher, as well as a number of ministers and senior state officials.
The ceremony began with the national anthem as President El-Sisi arrived at the platform.
A military honour guard of students then saluted the president, followed by a recitation of verses from the Holy Quran by Sheikh Youssef Helal Mohamed.
