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Niger's junta names new prime minister

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Eunice Wanjiru
August 8, 2023

Nearly two weeks after the military took power in Niger, the coup plotters have named former economy minister Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine as the country's new prime minister. The presidential guard ousted the democratically elected president Mohamed Bazoum and suspended the constitution.

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