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KUWAIT: Kuwait appointed Mariam Al-Aqeel as finance minister, the first female in the Gulf region to hold the post.

KUWAIT: Kuwait appointed Mariam Al-Aqeel as finance minister, the first female in the Gulf region to hold the post.

As finance minister, Al-Aqeel automatically heads the country’s sovereign wealth fund, Kuwait Investment Authority. The country has witnessed tumultuous relations between the elected legislature and the government appointed by the country’s hereditary emir. This is the eighth cabinet in as many years.He’s the son of former Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Sabah, who was forced out of office in 2011 by opposition-led protests calling for his ouster.

 

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