OUAGADOUGOU, 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.

Source: Nam News Network