Emir Sheikh Tamim’s new appointments


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Issue 950 - 05 Jul 2013 | 7 minute read

Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Khalifa announced his cabinet on 26 June, and has also made several other key appointments since taking office. The government includes five new ministries (transport, youth and sports, administrative development, communication and information technology and development planning and statistics) and a dozen new faces. Sheikh Tamim alluded to the shake-up in his inaugural address, promising that a timely restructuring would “reduce duplication”, and “place all public domains under the responsibility of well-defined and specific ministries”, a project begun in 2012. It is, of course, difficult to know which appointments can be read as evidence of Emir Sheikh Tamim’s designs, and which as part of the compromise required in choosing government.

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