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(FILES) This file photo taken on June 03, 2012 shows former Egyptian prime minister Ahmed Shafiq addressing a press conference in Cairo.
Former Egyptian premier Ahmed Shafiq, who narrowly lost a 2012 election to a since ousted Islamist president, will challenge leader Abdel Fattah al-Sisi at a poll next year, two aides told AFP. “I can confirm he will run,” one of them said of the Hosni Mubarak-era prime minister who left the country in 2012 for the United Arab Emirates.
/ AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED ABED
