Tunisia: new unity government sworn in

A new Tunisian unity government took office on Monday in the birthplace of the Arab Spring, with Prime Minister Youssef Chahed, the country’s youngest-ever leader, facing major economic and security challenges.
Chahed, who turns 41 next month, becomes the former French colony’s seventh prime minister in less than six years, following a 2011 revolution that ousted strongman Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
His new cabinet of 26 ministers and 14 ministers of state includes women, young and independent ministers, three members of the Islamist Ennahda party and two former members of the powerful UGTT union.
The interior and defence ministers were kept on, in a show of faith for having restored calm after a string of spectacular jihadist attacks last year.
It formally took office at a ceremony in Carthage just outside Tunis during which outgoing premier Habib Essid, 67, handed over power.