On Saturday, October 10, the composition of the new Mauritanian government was announced, with 29 ministers appointed by Prime Minister Moctar Ould Diay, who was reappointed the previous day by the head of state.
The outgoing Minister of Energy, Mohamed Ould Khaled, implicated in the fires at the two Somelec power plants that occurred in late August in Nouakchott, has been excluded from this new government team.