Former education minister, Ahmed Zaki Badr was sworn in as Egypt's new local development minister in Sherif Ismail's cabinet, Al Bawaba news reported Saturday. Badr used to be the education minister during Mubarak's regime on January 3, 2010 until he was replaced by Ahmed Gamal El Din in 2011. He has served as head of Akhbar El Youm Academy by the end of 2011. The new cabinet is headed by the Oil Minister in Ibrahim Mahlab's resigned government, Sherif Ismail, who was tasked with forming new government on September 13.