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Morocco’s King Names a Female Prime Minister, in a Historic First

New York Times29 September 2026, 20:40 UTCMorocco

Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri, a lawyer and politician from the centrist Authenticity and Modernity Party, is only the second woman to lead the government of a North African country.

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