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Oligui Nguema sets objectives and deadlines for Gabonese ministers

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Gabonese President Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema has asked ministers, including eight new members, to turn their commitments into concrete results. On 15 October, he announced road maps with specific objectives and deadlines to speed up priority matters, L’Union reports.

Gabonese President Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema asked his ministers to turn their commitments into action at a meeting at the presidential palace on 15 October. He set objectives and deadlines, the daily L’Union reports.

The head of state said the government’s eight new members would not be given any observation period and that ministers already in office would have no respite. The eight newcomers had been sworn in after the reshuffle that brought the number of government members to 32.

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