FILE PHOTO: South Sudan's Minister of Petroleum, Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth gestures as he sits next to Defence Minister Kuol Manyang Juuk, at the reopening of the First Session of the Transitional National Legislature, at the Parliament building in Juba, South Sudan May 14, 2019. REUTERS/Andreea Campeanu/File Photo
JUBA (Reuters) - The South Sudanese president has appointed a new petroleum minister, removing Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth, the presidential spokesman told Reuters on Wednesday, but the reasons for the move were unclear.
The ministry is one of the most powerful in the country. South Sudan gets almost all of its revenues from oil and has been boosting production as it struggles to rebuild its shattered economy from the wreckage of a five-year civil war.
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