The Niger Republic coup leaders on Thursday, reeling out a decree, announced the formation of a new government on national television.
Recently appointed Niger’s Prime Minister, Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine will lead the newly pronounced 21-member government, with generals from the new military governing council heading the defence and interior ministries.
This is coming barely three weeks after the military junta ousted the democratically elected president, Mohamed Bazoum and took over power in Niger Republic.
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Crux News recalls that the military junta on Tuesday, appointed the country’s former economy minister Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine as the country’s new prime minister.
Meanwhile, top diplomats from the United Nations, African Union and the Economic Community of West African States will Thursday (today) storm Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, to take major decisions at an Extraordinary Summit on political development in the Niger Republic.
Recall that the Niger military junta had disconnected diplomatic ties with Nigeria after the ECOWAS envoy sent to the country to broker peace failed to achieve a result.
