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Afghan president finally nominates cabinet ministers


    KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Ashraf Ghani nominated ministers for his new cabinet on Monday, after a wait of more than three months to a establish a working government to tackle the violence-wracked country's problems.

    Ghani's chief of staff announced the 25 cabinet nominees at a ceremony attended by Ghani.

    The president and his election rival-turned-government partner Abdullah Abdullah have spent months wrangling over the makeup of the new cabinet, raising worries over whether their unity government could survive, let alone govern effectively.

    (Reporting by Kay Johnson; Editing by Jeremy Laurence)