Burkina Faso President names new PM
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Lassina Zerbo was named the new prime minister of Burkina Faso amid growing dissatisfaction over the country's deteriorating security crisis.
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Lassina Zerbo is named the new prime minister of Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso’s President Roch Marc Christian Kabore named Lassina Zerbo as the country’s new prime minister.
Zerbo is a 58-year-old geophysicist and the former head of a top nuclear watchdog. He is to take office amid growing popular dissatisfaction over a deteriorating security crisis that has occupied Burkina Faso for years.
“The president … decrees: Lassina Zerbo is named prime minister,” government spokesman Stephane Wenceslas Sanou said, reading the decree on television.
It is noteworthy that a new cabinet lineup is expected in the coming days.
Under pressure to make changes, President Kabore dismissed Prime Minister Christophe Dabire on Wednesday, the latest upheaval in a leadership shake-up that has included military top brass.
Opposition and civil society groups have expressed their discontent with the government’s management of the security crisis, calling on Kabore to step down.
In the past few years, violence has been escalating in the Sahel area, an arid region on the southern border, despite the presence of thousands of UN, regional, and Western troops in the region.
