OUAGADOUGOU, Dec 11 (NNN-Xinhua) — Burkina Faso’s President Roch Marc Christian Kabore picked Lassina Zerbo as the country’s new prime minister on Friday, according to a decree issued on Friday evening.
“Mr. Lassina Zerbo is named Prime Minister,” according to the decree signed by President Kabore.
Zerbo was executive secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, and previously served as director of the organization’s International Data Centre.
He will replace Christophe Joseph Marie Dabire who was dismissed on Wednesday. — NNN-XINHUA
