President Replaces Premier With Deputy
From Times Wire Reports
President Ali Abdullah Saleh fired his prime minister and asked Deputy Prime Minister Abdul-Kadir Ba Jammal to form a new government, the sixth since 1990, a presidential statement said.
The statement gave no reason for the firing of Abdul-Karim Iryani, who had served nearly three years. But he was seen as unable to accomplish many of Yemen’s economic reforms, launched in 1995 with help from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
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