{"id":128060,"date":"2021-06-25T15:24:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T07:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=128060"},"modified":"2021-06-25T15:24:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T07:24:05","slug":"central-african-republic-appoints-new-government-in-bid-for-unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=128060","title":{"rendered":"Central African Republic appoints new government in bid for unity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/newsghana.com.gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Central-African-Republic-CAR-696x392.png\" alt=\"Central African Republic (CAR)\" title=\"Central African Republic (CAR)\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"article-123\">BANGUI, June 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The president of the Central African Republic, Faustin Archange Touadera, has appointed a new government for his second term in office, two weeks after the resignation of former prime minister Firmin Ngrebada.<br><br>Representatives of several opposition parties are part of this &#8220;integrative&#8221; government, which is aimed at creating unity in the crisis-torn country, the president announced late on Wednesday.<br><br>However, important ministries, such as Economics, Health or Foreign Affairs, went to government representatives.<br><br>Ngrebada announced his resignation on June 10 and dissolved the government. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Henri Marie Dondra was appointed prime minister a day after Ngrebada\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/6\/10\/central-african-republic-prime-minister-ngrebada-resigns\">announced his resignation<\/a>\u00a0and that of his government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Touadera was sworn in for a second, five-year term in late March, following his re-election in December, in a vote overshadowed by attacks on security forces and UN soldiers by a new rebel alliance, further polarizing the political landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mineral-rich but extremely poor country with a population of around 4.7 million has been the scene of conflict for years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the UN, more than 60,000 people have fled the violence to neighbouring countries. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BANGUI, June 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The president of the Central African Republic, Faustin Archange Touadera, has appointed a new government for his second term in office, two weeks after the resignation of former prime minister Firmin Ngrebada. Representatives of several opposition parties are part of this &#8220;integrative&#8221; government, which is aimed at creating unity in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":128065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128060"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/128065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}