ADEN(RAHNUMA): Rashad Al-Alimi, the chairperson of Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council, issued a decree on Friday officially announcing the formation of the new government led by Prime Minister Shayea Mohsen Al-Zindani, who will also serve as minister of foreign and expatriate affairs.
The decree sets out the members of the new Cabinet, which for the first time in more than a decade includes women.
It comes three weeks after Al-Zindani was appointed prime minister and tasked with forming a new government. His proposals were submitted to the Presidential Leadership Council, and approved in line with constitutional and transitional frameworks, including the mechanisms of a Gulf Cooperation Council initiative, Yemen’s official Saba News Agency reported.
The new government comprises 35 ministers covering portfolios including defense, the interior, foreign affairs, finance, oil, education, health, energy, water and transport, as well as several ministers of state.
It also marks the return of women to a Yemeni Cabinet for the first time since 2015. Afrah Al-Zuba was appointed minister of planning and international cooperation, Judge Ishraq Al-Maqtari as minister of legal affairs, and Ahed Jaasous as minister of state for women’s affairs.
