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Woman bags Foreign Ministry in cabinet reshuffle

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    M'mah Hawa Bangoura has become the first woman to be a foreign minister of Guinea following a cabinet reshuffle that reduced the number of ministries from 21 to 19, AFP reported on Thursday, quoting state run television.

    Bangoura, who was Guinea's representative at the United Nations, succeeds Zainoul Abidine Sanoussi.

    Wednesday's reshuffle, in which the portfolios of Security, and Planning and Cooperation were scrapped, was the second this year, coming just five months after President Lansana Conte fired five ministers in January.

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