{"id":11151,"date":"2024-03-18T15:17:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T15:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/?p=11151"},"modified":"2024-03-18T15:17:57","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T15:17:57","slug":"four-new-ministers-appointed-to-gambian-cabinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/11151\/four-new-ministers-appointed-to-gambian-cabinet\/","title":{"rendered":"Four new ministers appointed to Gambian cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Adama Barrow has reshuffled his cabinet, introducing four new ministers in his administration effective Friday, 15th March 2024, according to a statement from the presidency.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The new faces include university lecturer Dr Ismaila Ceesay, who has been named as Minister of Information and Abdoulie Sanyang, a former Inspector General of Police as new Interior Minister.<\/div>\n
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Nani Juwara, formerly director of the National Water and Electricity Company (NAWEC) is now the Minister of Petroleum, while Haddy Jatou Sey has been appointed to replace educationist Claudiana Cole, as the new Minister of Basic and Secondary Education.<\/div>\n
An old face in cabinet Hamat NK Bah, who had spent almost seven years as Tourism and Culture minister has been appointed Minister for Lands and Regional Government.<\/div>\n
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Abdoulie Jobe replaces Mr. Bah as head of the Tourism and Culture ministry.<\/div>\n
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Meanwhile, Mr. Seedy Muctar Touray is Gambia\u2019s new IGP while Bai Ebrima Mboob heads The Gambia Immigration Department as DG.<\/p>\n

Former opposition politician Momodou Sabally, who recently switched to Barrow\u2019s National People\u2019s Party from the United Democratic Party has been designated as Presidential Special Adviser at the Office of the President.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The reshuffle represents the most significant change to President Adama Barrow\u2019s cabinet since his re-election in December 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":12,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"APA News","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"0","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"0","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"0","show_popup_post":"0","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,27],"tags":[1109,282],"class_list":["post-11151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-west-africa","tag-adama-barrow","tag-gambia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}