Egypt army given 90 days to secure Sinai

Egypt’s president has told the military it can use all force necessary to secure the Sinai Peninsula following last week’s attack on a mosque that killed more than 300 people.

Abdul Fattah al-Sisi ordered the army to secure and stabilise the region within three months.

No group has yet said it carried out the attack, although there’s considerable evidence pointing to the Egyptian branch of so-called Islamic State.

There has been unrest and violence in the northern Sinai for many years, but it has intensified recently.

The Egyptian authorities have vowed to end it before, but failed.