Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani appointed a new government on the evening of March 31, marked by the departure of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, according to a presidential decree.
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Prime Minister Mohamed Ould Bilal submitted his resignation on Tuesday before being reappointed on Wednesday.
Mohamed Salem Ould Merzoug becomes the new head of diplomacy, leaving the Ministry of the Interior where he is replaced by Mohamed Ahmed Ould Mohamed Lemine, who was President Ghazouani's chief of staff.
The new government is marked by 15 departures and permutations.
Holders of positions of sovereignty such as Justice and Islamic Affairs remain in their posts.
The new team has four women against six in the previous one.
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President Ghazouani has also appointed Yahya Ould Ahmed Elwaghef, former prime minister under President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, who was overthrown by a putsch in 2009, to the post of Minister Secretary General of the Presidency.
Yahya Ould Ahmed Elwaghef, who read the decree of appointment of the new government, explained this change by the
"concern of the president to breathe new blood into the action of the government, to raise the level of performance of the administration, the efficiency of its action and its bringing closer to the citizen"
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Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani has been in power since August 2019.
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