Lassina Zerbo named Burkina Faso's new prime minister

Dec 11, 2021

Ouagadougou [Burkina Faso], December 11 (ANI/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.
"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. (ANI/Xinhua)

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