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By Tanu Jalloh Sierra Leone has struck a couple of deals with potential investors, craving for the nascent oil industry. Diamonds have failed to raise the money the small West African country needed so badly to grease a cog in the wheels of what was largely a puerile economy. It was at the mercy of the powerful, while democratic rule nurtured its way through a defiant system,
The military that overthrew President Bazoum almost two weeks ago has appointed a prime minister. In a statement read on public television, the putschists announced that Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine was taking over as head of government. He is a well-known politician to Nigeriens because he was in government more than a dozen years ago, as Minister of Finance. He lost his post in 2010, when power was overthrown in a military coup. It is therefore another putsch, 13 years later, which propels him this time Prime Minister.