1:01:1The ruling military appoint Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine Prime Minister
The soldiers who carried out the coup d’etat in Niger announced on Monday evening the appointment of a Prime Minister, Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine, in a press release read on national television. “Mr. (Ali Mahaman) Lamine Zeine has been appointed Prime Minister,” reported Colonel-Major Amadou Abdramane.
As soon as he came to power, the former president Mamadou Tandja appointed Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine as chief of staff in 2001, then minister of finance in 2002, to redress a chaotic economic and financial situation.
Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine had served as finance minister until the overthrow of Mamadou Tandja in a 2010 coup by commander Salou Djibo, before a presidential election won by Mahamadou Issoufoupredecessor of mohamed bazoum, forfeited on July 26. Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine, an economist by training, was also resident representative of the African Development Bank (AfDB) in Chadin Ivory Coast and at Gabon.
“Lieutenant-Colonel Habibou Assoumane” was also “appointed commander of the presidential guard”, added Amadou Abdramane.
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There ECOWAS planned to meet Thursday in Abuja on Niger.
Earlier, the Malian army announced the dispatch to Niamey of an official joint delegation mali–Burkina Faso to “show the solidarity of the two countries” with the perpetrators of the coup.
It is a decisive week for Niger, the day after the expiration of a West African ultimatum demanding the return to constitutional order.
With AFP and Reuters