UPDATE: New oil minister nominated in Cabinet overhaul
Abadi taps Nazar Numan, a Kurdish geologist, to run the Oil Ministry, and proposes Ali Allawi to once again head the Finance Ministry.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi holds an envelope of documents on his proposed new Cabinet in Parliament on March 31, 2016. (Source: Prime Minister's media office)
Updates include:
- List of all 13 known Cabinet nominees
- Early reactions from MPs in Baghdad
- Added biographical information on Numan
BAGHDAD - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has nominated Nazar Numan - a Kurdish geologist who is relatively unknown in Iraq's oil sector - to lead the Oil Ministry as part of a new Cabinet.
In an address to Parliament on Thursday, Abadi said he would reduce the number of government ministries from 22 to 16 by merging several portfolios, and proposed a new slate of ministers to compose what he has branded a "Cabinet of technocrats" - part of his administration's efforts to root out corruption and improve governance.
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