Morocco forms new government under 1st ever female prime minister

Morocco announced a new cabinet on Friday, ushering in a historic era with the country’s first female prime minister leading a four-party coalition, Anadolu reports. According to state-run Maghreb Arabe Presse (MAP), King Mohammed VI received members of the new cabinet, led by Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri, and presided over their appointment ceremony at the Royal Palace in the capital Rabat. El Mansouri is the first Moroccan woman to hold the country’s top government post. She will lead a new government formed by a four-party coalition comprising her Authenticity and Modernity Party, the Istiqlal Party, the Socialist Union of Popular Forces and the Party of Progress and Socialism. The new government includes seven women, including El Mansouri, compared with six […]