Burkina Faso military regime appoints new prime minister

BAMAKO, Mali

Rimtalba Jean Emmanuel Ouedraogo was appointed prime minister of Burkina Faso on Saturday.

Ouedraogo succeeds Apollinaire Joachim Kyelem de Tambela, who was dismissed Friday by President Capt. Ibrahim Traore in a presidential decree.

Matias Traore, general secretary of the government and Cabinet, who delivered the decree, said, “He will be responsible, in the days to come, for constituting a government for the continuity of government action, the handling of current affairs of which has been entrusted to the members of the dissolved government.”

Ouedraogo, a journalist and news host, previously served as minister of state in charge of communications.