Tunisia’s president names country’s first woman prime minister

Newly named prime minister Raoudha Boudent Ramadhane (Slim Abid/PA)

Tunisia’s president named the country’s first female prime minister, appointing her to lead a transitional government after her predecessor was sacked and parliament suspended.

President Kais Saied named Raoudha Boudent Ramadhane, a 63-year-old professor at a prestigious engineering school, to the prime minister’s post in a surprise decision.