Sultan Qaboos bin Said al-Said has responded to pressure generated by unprecedented demonstrations in Oman by conducting a radical cabinet reshuffle and sacking his long-serving economy minister.
Last night the sultan fired a total of 12 ministers including Ahmed Makki, the economy minister who was a focus for the anger of demonstrators gathered in Sohar, an industrial port north of Muscat, the capital.
The reshuffle came shortly after Standard & Poor’s, the rating agency, said that it was putting the sultanate’s sovereign debt on review for downgrade.
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