Mauritania names new prime minister
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania — Mauritania's president has named a new prime minister following the resignation of the former premier of the Islamic nation in northwest Africa resigned.
President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi said in a statement Tuesday he had named 50-year-old economist Yahya Ould Ahmed Waqef to the post, succeeding Zeine Ould Zeidane. Zeidane gave no reason for the move.
Zeidane had held the premiership since shortly after a military junta handed power to a civilian government through elections in March 2007. Zeidane came in third against Abdallahi in the first round of a presidential vote.
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