IRAQ FINALLY HAS A NEW GOVERNMENT

IRAQ FINALLY HAS A NEW GOVERNMENT THIS EVENING AFTER ONE YEAR!!

Iraqi lawmakers have approved a new government, ending more than a year of deadlock, but the country still faces many challenges.

Prime minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, 52, who previously served as Iraq’s human rights minister as well as minister of labour and social affairs, will head the new government.

Sudani’s picks for 21 ministries passed during a parliament vote on the cabinet. He named the former head of the state-run South Gas Company (SGC) Hayan Abdul Ghani as oil minister, kept Fuad Hussein as foreign minister for a second term, and Taif Sami as finance minister.

Sudani vowed to reform the economy, fight corruption, improve deteriorating public services, and combat poverty and unemployment.