Muslim Brotherhood (EGYPT-REPORT‪)‬

Muslim Brotherhood Split, Elects New Leader Egypt's main opposition group, the officially banned Sunni fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood, elected a new supreme leader after weeks of schisms that surfaced in news media and are still marring the group's ranks, the London-based daily AL HAYAT reported on Jan. 11. "The Muslim Brotherhood officially selected Mohammed Badih, a pathology professor, as its eighth guide (supreme leader) ... ending two weeks of obscurity about the matter," the Saudi-owned newspaper said. "A group leader who declined to be identified said Badih managed to gain most votes in an election," it added.