Morocco appoints first female prime minister

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RABAT — King Mohammed VI of Morocco has appointed Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri as the country’s first female prime minister and tasked her with forming a new government. The appointment followed the September 23 parliamentary election, in which El Mansouri’s Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM)…

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