Tag: Prime Minister
Somali Prime Minister’s powers suspended
Somalian President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed suspended the Prime Minister's power to hire and fire officials, he said in a statement, escalating a destabilising row...
Somalia to hold indirect election on 10 October, Prime Minister says
Somalia will indirectly pick a new president on 10 October, the prime minister said on Tuesday, potentially easing a political crisis brought on by...
Detained Malian leaders freed
Mali's ousted interim leaders are free after they were detained by the army and resigned, a military representative said, as another questioned the feasibility...
Sudan’s PM promises justice on anniversary of sit-in killings
Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok pledged justice on Wednesday for scores of pro-democracy protesters killed a year ago when security forces broke up a...
New Guinea-Bissau Prime Minister resigns
Guinea-Bissau’s newly appointed Prime Minister Faustino Fudut Imbali handed in his resignation after an ultimatum from West African regional bloc ECOWAS, the president said....
New Guinea Bissau PM named, incumbent refuses to leave
Guinea-Bissau President Jose Mario Vaz named a new prime minister but his sacked predecessor refused to step down, intensifying a power struggle between Vaz...
New Prime Minister for Gabon
Gabon's President Ali Bongo, who has been out of the country for two months recovering from a stroke, named a new prime minister in...
New Prime Minister for Guinea
Guinea President Alpha Conde named Ibrahima Kassory Fofana as the country's new Prime Minister amid heightened political tensions and suspicion about his...
Gabon prime minister ordered to resign
Gabon's Constitutional Court ordered the prime minister to resign and the lower house of parliament dissolved after legislative elections scheduled for the...
New Prime Minister for Ethiopia
Ethiopia's ruling coalition voted Abiye Ahmed in as new Prime Minister this week following the resignation of Hailemariam Desalegn last month, ...
Mali Prime Minister in Kidal
Mali's prime minister visited Kidal on Friday, the first senior government delegation in three years to visit the city, under the control...
Ethiopian Prime Minister resigns
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn resigned on Thursday in what he described as a bid to smooth reforms, following years of violent...
Somalian PM secures ceasefire
Somalia's prime minister said at the weekend he had secured a ceasefire between two warring regions in the Horn of Africa nation,...
New prime minister named in Gabon
Gabon President Ali Bongo promoted foreign minister Emmanuel Issoze Ngondet to the post of Prime Minister on Wednesday, a day after Bongo...
Libyan prime minister calls for national reconciliation in splintered country
Libya's prime minister called for a national reconciliation initiative to repair the divisions in a fragmented country reeling from the turbulence that...
Ex-Burkina Faso prime minister detained on charges of killing protesters
Burkina Faso authorities detained a former prime minister on Friday in connection with the violent attempts to put down a protest that...
Mauritian PM picks son as finance minister
Mauritius Prime Minister Anerood Jugnauth picked his son Pravind as finance minister, the president's office said on Wednesday.
The younger Jugnauth (53) was...
Egypt’s new PM says army to give him extra powers
Egypt's new prime minister said the ruling army would grant him extra powers, and appointed a finance minister along with most other...
Greek PM hopeful on signature dispute, strike looms
Greece's new technocrat prime minister said he was confident fractious politicians would soon provide a written commitment to painful austerity measures as...
Spain new premier refuses to reveal plans
Prime Minister-elect Mariano Rajoy resisted pressure to disclose his plans for rescuing Spain from economic disaster, keeping anxious Spaniards and impatient investors...
Libya PM says needs to verify former spy chief was captured
Libyan Prime Minister designate Abdurrahim El Keib said he needed to verify whether former spy chief Abdallah Al-Senussi was indeed captured before...
Libya will have new government on Tuesday: PM
Libya's prime minister-designate said he was ready to name a government to steer the country to its first fully democratic elections...
Libya elects little-known scientist new prime minister
Libya's ruling National Transitional Council has elected little-known academic Abdul Raheem al-Keeb as the new interim prime minister to guide the country...
Greece heads for standstill before austerity vote
A ruling Greek Socialist party deputy quit parliament to protest against austerity, striking a blow at Prime Minister George Papandreou's efforts to...
Palestinians unhappy with envoy Tony Blair
Palestinian officials are going public with long-whispered complaints that international Middle East peace envoy Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, is...
Tunisian court frees former Libya prime minister
A Tunisian court of appeal has freed Muammar Gaddafi's former Prime Minister Al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi, who was sentenced to six months in...
Deal seems close to end anti-graft activist fast
India's leading anti-corruption campaigner edged closer to a deal to end his 10-day public fast after Prime Minister Manmohan's Singh government agreed...
Mauritius govt majority shrinks as partner pulls out
The parliamentary majority held by Mauritius's ruling coalition shrank after one party pulled out of government a day after a cabinet reshuffle...
Egypt PM pledges anti-graft body, other reforms
Egypt's prime minister promised to set up an anti-corruption body and work to end a 30-year-emergency law to placate protesters demanding faster...
