TUNIS (Reuters) – Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune appointed Sifi Ghrieb because the nation’s new prime minister and Mourad Adjal as minister of power and renewable power in a cupboard reshuffle, a presidential assertion stated on Sunday.
Ghrieb, who was the business minister, had been serving as performing prime minister since Tebboune ended the tenure of Nadir Larbaoui final month.
Adjal was the CEO of Algeria’s state energy agency Sonelgaz.
The ministers of finance, commerce and overseas affairs remained of their positions, the presidency stated.
The gas-producing North African nation is an power provider for a number of European nations however has been in search of to diversify its financial system because it contends with varied social and financial challenges.
(Reporting by Tarek Amara in Tunis and Ahmed Tolba; Modifying by David Goodman and Lisa Shumaker)