# King appoints Morocco’s first female prime minister

https://mins.news/en/item/79571

- Al Jazeera, 2026-09-30 02:13 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/9/30/king-appoints-moroccos-first-female-prime-minister-2?traffic_source=rss

> Morocco’s King Mohammed VI has appointed Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri, Marrakesh’s long-serving mayor, as the country’s first female prime minister after her party won last week’s parliamentary election. The 50-year-old becomes the second woman in the Arab world to lead a government.

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