Abadi’s Balance Draws Praise
By Mustafa al-Kadhimi for Al-Monitor. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Abadi’s Balance Draws Praise, but Governing Iraq a...
View ArticleIraq Forms New Cabinet under Abadi
By John Lee. Iraq’s parliament has approved a new cabinet proposed by Haider al-Abadi. According to a report from BBC News, the new government will have Sunni and Kurdish deputy prime ministers, Saleh...
View ArticleParliament Approves the Abbadi Cabinet
The following article was published by Reidar Visser, an historian of Iraq educated at the University of Oxford. It is reproduced here with the author’s permission. Any opinions expressed are those of...
View ArticleMoving Beyond Tribalism
By Padraig O’Hannelly. The world has broadly welcomed the approval by the Iraqi parliament of the new cabinet of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi. While the formulation of the new cabinet attempts to...
View ArticleListing of New Iraqi Cabinet
Niqash has issued the following listing of the new Iraqi cabinet, translated from the Arabic official government announcement: Deputy Prime Ministers: Hoshyar Zebari (Kurdish); Saleh al-Mutlaq (Sunni);...
View ArticleParliament Rejects Defense, Interior Ministry Candidates
By John Lee. The Iraqi parliament has rejected the two candidates proposed by Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi for the posts of Interior Minister and Defense Minister. In what Bloomberg describes as a...
View ArticleSecurity Ministries on Hold
By Mustafa al-Kadhimi for Al-Monitor. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. After four years of having a vacuum in the...
View ArticleAdditional Cabinet Ministers Approved
The following article was published by Reidar Visser, an historian of Iraq educated at the University of Oxford. It is reproduced here with the author’s permission. Any opinions expressed are those of...
View ArticleAl-Darraji Takes Over as Industry Minster
By John Lee. On Sunday, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi received the new Minister of Industry, Mohammed al-Darraji [Daraji, Derraji]. Al-Darraji takes over from Naseer al-Issawi, who submitted his...
View ArticleCabinet Gives Itself a Pay Cut
By John Lee. The Iraqi Council of Ministers has reportedly approved a cut of 45 percent in ministerial salaries. It also approved a resolution to pay equal salaries to all Vice Presidents, Deputy Prime...
View ArticleVideo: Iraq’s Plan for Political Reform
From Al Jazeera. Any opinions expressed are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Corruption, attacks, the battle against ISIL, a fragile economy, and...
View ArticleAl-Abadi’s wide-ranging Plan to Slash Spending
By John Lee. The Iraqi cabinet has approved Prime minister Haider al-Abadi’s wide-ranging plan to slash spending and improve the government’s performance. The seven-point plan, which includes the...
View ArticleDeputy PM Resigns, Faces Corruption Investigation
One of Iraq’s deputy prime ministers has stepped down, and is to be investigated for corruption, reports HuffPost. Baha al-Araji (pictured), deputy prime minister for energy affairs, resigned on...
View ArticlePM Fires Senior Staff
By John Lee. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi (pictured) has reportedly dismissed his cabinet secretary and his aides on Wednesday. Mohammed Khalaf Ahmed was said to be a close associate of Abadi’s...
View ArticleAbadi Slashes Cabinet Positions
By John Lee. As part of his recently-announced reform programme, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has ordered the immediate reduction in the number of ministers from 33 to 22: In a statement on Sunday,...
View ArticleIraqi Trade Minister Dismissed
By John Lee. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has sacked the Minister for Trade, Mlas Mohammed Al-Kasanzan [Abdulkarim Malas al-Kasnazani] (pictured), for failing to show up for work. A statement from...
View ArticlePrime Minister Announces New ‘Technocrat’ Cabinet
By John Lee. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi nominated a new cabinet on Thursday, pledging to make political reforms to reduce corruption in response to sit-in protests in Baghdad led by Muqtada...
View ArticlePM’s Oil Minister Nominee Withdraws Candidacy
By John Lee. The Prime Minister’s nominee for the post of oil minister in his new ‘technocrat cabinet’ has reportedly withdrawn his candidacy, apparently because he had not been formally proposed by...
View ArticleAnother Cabinet Nominee Withdraws
By John Lee. Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi’s nomination for the position of Finance Minister has withdrawn his candidacy, a week after the withdrawal of his proposed Oil Minister. According to Gulf...
View ArticleParliament Delays Vote on ‘Technocrat’ Cabinet
By John Lee. Associated Press reports that Iraq’s parliament has delayed a vote on Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s new technocrat cabinet. The reduction from 21 cabinet ministers to 16 was met with...
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