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An Irritated El-Sisi Says It's Time the State Gets Its Due

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Photographer: ASHRAF SHAZLY/AFP/Getty Images

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi is losing his patience.

In a ceremony marking the opening of a housing project in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, El-Sisi took provincial and military officials as well as ministers to task over what he said was the state’s failure to get what it is owed.