Abraham Lincoln became the United States' 16th President in 1861, issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy in 1863.

Carl Sandburg has written the great biography of Abraham Lincoln; that is, the son of the prairie and the Midwest who became US president. A son of the prairie has written about another; but Sandburg's parents were not in the country when Lincoln appeared there, lived and died. Nevertheless, and rightly, portrays Sandburg him as an affiliation, as if he was there when Lincoln went ride through the countryside between the various councils to sue as a lawyer in court, as if he had been present when Lincoln got up on a oxcart in the square to hold election speech in the small towns - one of the most famous speeches he delivered just in Galesburg, where the couple Sandburg finally came after to have emigrated from northern Sweden and then to Illinois, United States.

Ashraf Ghani nominates 25 ministers after three months of attempting to establish a working government.

  Afghan president and his rival-turned partner spent months of dispute over new cabinet formation

Afghanistan’s new Cabinet was unveiled on Monday after three months of wrangling following the election of President Ashraf Ghani and the formation of a “national unity government” in the wake of last year’s fraud-mired election.

Mr Ghani was inaugurated in late September after signing a power-sharing deal with his poll rival Abdullah Abdullah.

The “unity government” deal was seen as saving Afghanistan from the risk of imminent civil war when both candidates claimed to have won the election in a stand-off that fanned long-standing ethnic tensions.

But negotiations over ministerial posts brought politics to a stalemate and threatened to fuel the Taliban insurgency.

Abdul Salam Rahimi, Ghani’s chief of staff, read out the names of the 25 new ministers at the presidential palace in Kabul. The list will now go before Parliament for approval.

Three women were named in the Cabinet, as ministers for higher education, information and culture, and women’s affairs.

Allocating the ministries was fraught with difficulty due to Afghanistan’s complex ethnic divisions and rivalries.

Mr Ghani, a former World Bank economist, is largely backed by Pashtun tribes of the south and east, while Abdullah, a former anti-Taliban resistance fighter, draws his support from Tajiks and other northern groups.

Monday’s breakthrough comes at a sensitive time as Taliban insurgents push to exploit the end of Nato’s combat mission on December 31 after 13 years of fighting.

Conflict still rages across Afghanistan, with a record number of civilian and Afghan security force casualties in 2014.