29-1-2017
President Isaias Afeworki, having made changes at the top of the army in August is now preparing to reshuffle his cabinet. According to our sources, the Justice Minister Fawzia Hashim, who has held his post for 25 years, will be appointed Eritrea’s representative to the Arab League. Moussa Hassan Naib, the current director general of the Ministry of Education, is a likely replacement. This veteran of the liberation war, from a family of Tigray/Balaw chiefs from Massawa-Herguigo, is a lawyer by training. After Eritrea gained independence from Ethiopia in 1993, Naib served as Attorney General and sat, with his sister Amna Hassan Naib – of the commission that drafted the new country’s constitution. Another important player is the current Minister of Information and Government Spokesman Yemane Gebremeskel. He will take the lead in Eritrea’s mission to the United Nations, which has been vacant since the death of Girma Asmerom in October.
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