Algeria conducts minor cabinet reshuffle

Algerian President keeps key ministers in a small cabinet reshuffle that saw ministers of agriculture and transport sacked.

CAIRO - Algeria conducted a minor cabinet reshuffle on Tuesday, keeping its energy, finance, interior and foreign affairs ministers, but appointed a new prime minister, a statement from the presidency said, while ministers of agriculture and transport were sacked.

The reshuffle comes a couple of weeks after Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune appointed Nadir Larbaoui as his new prime minister.