Mugabe announces cabinet

Zimbabwe

Following his recent re-election, Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has announced a new cabinet with a reduction from 33 to 26 members. The Cabinet is mainly composed of allies from his previous appointments and retains the Ministry of Indigenisation - a ministry for enacting the policy of seizing the majority stake of foreign-owned firms and giving them to black Zimbabweans.

There has been no functioning Cabinet since the July 31 elections when Mugabe was re-elected.

Prior to that, Mugabe's ZANU PF party and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC party shared power.

In the list released, Jonathan Moyo bounces back as Media, Information and Broadcasting Services Minister; while former Justice Minister - Patrick Chinamasa is now the Finance Minister, taking over from Tendai Biti, who was from the MDC party under the 2009-2013 coalition government.