{"id":44407,"date":"2026-09-02T13:29:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=44407"},"modified":"2026-09-02T13:29:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:29:30","slug":"algerian-president-names-central-bank-governor-as-finance-minister-in-reshuffle","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/algerian-president-names-central-bank-governor-as-finance-minister-in-reshuffle\/","title":{"rendered":"Algerian President names Central Bank Governor as Finance Minister in reshuffle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune appointed Mohamed Lamine Lebbou, the \u200cCentral Bank Governor, as Finance Minister on Tuesday in a partial cabinet reshuffle.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A presidential statement also \u2060announced the appointment of Hattab Mohamed as minister of labour, employment and social security, Said Ali Khaldi as minister of agriculture and Mohamed Bouslimani as \u200cCommunications \u2060Minister.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lebbou&#8217;s move to the finance ministry comes only months after he was appointed \u2060Central Bank Governor by Tebboune in February, replacing Salah Eddine \u2060Taleb.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The statement did not indicate who would \u2060succeed Lebbou at the central bank.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15125,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-44407","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Algeria names Central Bank Governor as Finance Minister","published_date":"2026-09-02 13:28:43","news_description":"Algeria names Central Bank Governor as Finance Minister","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/44407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/44407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44408,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/44407\/revisions\/44408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=44407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}