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 by AFP Staff Writers Ouagadougou (AFP) Dec 10, 2021
Burkina Faso's President Roch Marc Christian Kabore on Friday picked Lassina Zerbo, the former head of a top nuclear watchdog, as the country's new prime minister, a decree said. "The president... decrees: Lassina Zerbo is named prime minister," government spokesman Stephane Wenceslas Sanou said, reading the decree on television. Zerbo, 58, was executive secretary of the Vienna-based Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO) from 2013 until this summer. He will take over from Joseph Dabire, whose resignation Kabore accepted on Wednesday as he sought to defuse anger over the government's perceived inability to stamp out jihadist violence in the country. A new cabinet line-up is expected in the coming days. Jihadist attacks have grown increasingly regular and deadly in Burkina Faso since 2015, killing 2,000 people and displacing 1.4 million from their homes, especially in the north and east.
South Sudan peace process at risk, UN warns Juba (AFP) Dec 8, 2021 The United Nations on Wednesday warned South Sudan's leaders that the young nation's fragile peace process was under serious threat due to slow progress, calling for "fresh urgency" to revive negotiations. The world's newest nation has suffered from chronic instability since independence in 2011, including a brutal five-year civil war between forces loyal to President Salva Kiir and his deputy Riek Machar that cost almost 400,000 lives. The 2018 agreement which ended the war has been bedevilled ... read more
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