PM takes finance portfolio in new Ivorian government

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Thu Nov 22, 2012 8:51am EST


ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Ivory Coast announced a new government on Thursday in which newly appointed Prime Minister Daniel Kablan Duncan will also take the finance and economy portfolio.

President Alassane Ouattara named Duncan, a member of his allied PDCI party and foreign minister in the previous cabinet, as prime minister on Wednesday, after dissolving his government last week over a lack of coalition solidarity.

There were no changes at the defense or agriculture ministries but Charles Koffi Diby, a former finance minister, take over the foreign ministry, according to a statement from the president’s office.

(Reporting by Loucoumane Coulibaly; Writing by Joe Bavier; Editing by David Lewis and Jon Boyle)

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