Ghana' President Names New Defense Minister

Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama on Wednesday appointed a new defense minister in a cabinet reshuffle which also saw the dismissal of the interior and agriculture ministers but left other key portfolios unchanged. No reason was give for the cabinet shake-up, the first since Mahama took office in January last year after winning the West African nation's December 2012 presidential election. The president is under pressure to turn around the economy of the cocoa-, oil- and...

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