OPEC'S second-largest producer, Iraq, has long been rudderless amid a chronic power vacuum made worse by the Covid-19 onslaught that has crippled its already shaky finances. The endorsement of Mostafa al Kadhimi as new Prime Minister has raised hopes for an end to months of chaos - but the omens are hardly promising. Kadhimi has begun his mandate without a full Cabinet and with the key posts of oil and foreign relations ministers left vacant.
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