Veteran politician named new Guinea-Bissau PM

[WorldNews]

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Veteran politician Carlos Correia was sworn in as Guinea-Bissau's new prime minister on Thursday amid hopes that his appointment might diffuse a weeks-long political crisis in the coup-prone West African state. The tiny cashew exporter descended into political turmoil after President Jose Mario Vaz dismissed popular prime minister Domingoes Simoes Pereira and his government on Aug. 13. The octogenarian Correia, a PAIGC stalwart who now becomes Guinea-Bissau's third prime minister in the span of five weeks, has already served three stints in the job between 1991 and 2008.

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