The caretaker government, which called itself the National Council for the Safeguarding of the Country, appointed economist Ali Mahamane Lamine Zeine theSun theSundaily NigerCoup PrimeMinister transitional WorldNews
TOPSHOT - A street vendor pushes his cart past burned cars outside the headquarters of president Bazoum's Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism in Niamey on August 7, 2023. - AFPPIX: Niger’s junta appointed a transitional prime minister Monday according to a decree read on national television, more than a week after the military coup that toppled President Mohamed Bazoum, reported Anadolu Agency.
Zeine, 58, served as finance minister under Mamadou Tandja, who led the country from 1999 to 2010 after its return to civilian rule.Zeine, who previously served at the same institution and position in Ivory Coast and Gabon, is expected to lead consultations for the formation of a new government.
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