RABAT, Oct. 17 -- Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri, Morocco's first woman to lead a government, saw her cabinet sworn in on Friday with the interior, foreign affairs and justice ministers unchanged and the economy and finance portfolio handed to the man who runs the national football federation.

King Mohammed VI presided over the ceremony at the Royal Palace in Rabat, Xinhua reported, citing the state news agency MAP. Anadolu Agency counted 32 members, ministers and ministers-delegate together, seven of them women, up from six in the outgoing government of Aziz Akhannouch. The finance post went to Fouzi Lekjaa, a former budget minister, as Morocco prepares to co-host the 2030 World Cup with Spain and Portugal.

The cabinet pairs a historic fir...