Egypt coup: Five years since Sisi took power
After months of protests demanding the newly elected President Mohamed Morsi step down, Sisi said the coup was necessary to ‘prevent Egypt slipping into a dark tunnel of civil unrest’.
It’s been five years since Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, was overthrown in a military coup.
The Muslim Brotherhood leader had been in office just a year when army chief, General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, seized power.
Al Jazeera’s Charles Stratford looks at what’s happened since then.
Published On 3 Jul 2018