Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika on Wednesday unveiled his new 22 member cabinet with finance minister Goodall Gondwe reshuffled to the local government portfolio.
Mutharika, sworn in for a second term last month, retained just eight former ministers who were all shifted to other posts in the cabinet headed by himself and deputy Joyce Banda.
The 75-year-old appointed auditor Ken Kandodo, a grand-nephew of late dictator Kamuzu Banda, as the new finance minister over Gondwe who oversaw the growth of the agriculture-driven economy over the past five years.
Gondwe is a former director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and is credited for turning around the economic fortunes of the impoverished southern African country.
The president gave himself the portfolio of agriculture, which he held during his first term in office. He is also the commander-in-chief of the 10,000-strong army and the police, which has 7,000 officers.
Mutharika's brother Peter, a constitutional expert, was named justice and constitutional affairs minister.
"I want an efficient cabinet that delivers," Mutharika said last month.
He dropped several of his close aides who had joined him in a minority government shortly after he ditched the former ruling United Democratic Front (UDF) of ex-president Bakili Muluzi, after winning the 2004 vote.
Wednesday 17 June 2009
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