Burkina Faso president picks ex-nuclear monitor as PM modernghana.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from modernghana.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Burkina Faso's President Roch Marc Christian Kabore on Friday picked Lassina Zerbo, the former head of a top nuclear watchdog, as the new prime minister of the West African nation, a decree said.
Burkinabe President Roch Marc Christian Kabore on Friday picked Lassina Zerbo, a former head of a top nuclear watchdog, as the new prime minister of the West African nation, a decree said.
The 58-year-old geophysicist is to take office amid rising popular discontent over deadly militant violence in the poverty-stricken country.
“The president . decrees: Lassina Zerbo is named prime minister,” Burkinabe government spokesman Stephane Wenceslas Sanou said, reading the decree on television.
A new Cabinet lineup is expected in the coming days.
Zerbo was executive secretary of the Vienna-based Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organisation from 2013 until this summer.
He is relatively unknown to most
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