Ivory Coast Names New Forestry Minister in Reduced Cabinet
Tiemoko Meyliet Kone after being sworn in at the presidential palace in Abidjan on April 20.
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Ivory Coast retained Finance Minister Adama Coulibaly and named Laurent Tchagba minister of water and forestry in a smaller cabinet, Secretary General in the Presidency Abdourahmane Cisse told reporters Wednesday.
The former hydraulics minister replaces Alain-Richard Donwahi. Forestry has become a key ministry as the West African nation seeks to expand forest area to 20% of its territory by 2030 in an effort to fight deforestation, a key issue that the world’s top cocoa producer faces in order to keep exporting to the crucial European Union market.