Iraqi Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani will now oversee the Electricity Ministry now that the long-serving electricity minister has resigned, following violent protests over the country’s chronic power outages. The announcement came from government officials, but was disputed by Iraq’s deputy electricity minister.
Officials in the Oil Ministry said Shahristani has been named acting electricity minister while maintaining his duties as the head of Iraq’s state-run petroleum operations.
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