Burkina: Prime Minister Dabiré renewed after Kaboré's election

Burkinabè Prime Minister Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré, who had resigned after the re-election of President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, has been re-elected to his post, the Secretary General of the Government Stéphane Sanou announced on national television on Tuesday.

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"The president of Faso, given the constitution, decrees: Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré is appointed prime minister"

, declared the secretary general.

President Kaboré wrote in the wake of his Twitter account.

In office since January 2019, Christophe Marie Dabiré, economist and former Commissioner in charge of Trade, Competition and Cooperation of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (Uemoa), had sent in his resignation and that of the government on December 28 , the day after the inauguration of President Kaboré, reelected for a second term, thus following the usual procedure after legislative elections (coupled with the presidential election).

President Kaboré was re-elected in the first round for a second term on November 22.

In the legislative elections, the People's Movement for Progress (MPP, presidential party) won 56 out of 127 seats in the National Assembly, which it controls along with small allied parties.

The outgoing president of the Assembly, Alassane Bala Sakandé, a close friend of President Kaboré, had also been reappointed.

Poor and landlocked West African country of 20.5 million inhabitants, Burkina Faso has been plagued since 2015 by recurrent jihadist attacks that have left at least 1,200 dead and a million internally displaced.

On Monday, at least six people, including two civilian auxiliaries of the Burkinabè security forces in the anti-jihadist fight were killed in an attack in the north of the country, near the Malian border.

President Kaboré has promised to bring back

to the country for his second and last term.