Egyptian Minister of Transport Ali Zein al-Abedeen assigned engineer Ali Hussien as head of Egypt's Metro department. Sources told Youm7 the Minister of Transport took this decision of assigning Hussien after meeting with the metro company workers. The decision was made to satisfy a great number of company workers. Workers agreed with the choice of Hussien even if they firt refused him and claimed to protest more on November 3," one source said.