Zimbabwe’s new president, Emmerson Mnangagwa,
appointed senior military officials to top posts in his new cabinet and chose a
veteran cabinet minister to head the finance ministry.
Mnangagwa was sworn in as president last Friday after
93-year-old Robert Mugabe quit under pressure from the army.
He named Patrick Chinamasa as finance minister, Air Marshal
Perrance Shiri land minister and Major General Sibusiso Moyo foreign minister,
among other appointments.
He also brought back many faces from the Robert Mugabe era,
which could disapppoint Zimbabweans who had been expecting a broad-based
government and a break with the past.
Chinamasa, a former finance minister in Mugabe’s government,
moved to a newly created ministry of cyber security in a reshuffle last month.
The cyber portfolio has been folded into the information ministry headed by a
minister in Mugabe’s government, Supa Mandiwanzira.
Mnangagwa is under pressure to deliver, especially on the
economy, which is in the grip of severe foreign currency shortages that have
seen banks failing to give customers cash.
He told heads of government ministries on Tuesday that he
was putting together a “leaner” government, which would see the merging of some
departments to enhance efficiency.
Reuters
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