The 58-year-old geophysicist has taken on the role of a growing number of people due to the violence in the country.
Burkina Faso President Roch Marc Christian Kabore has appointed Lassina Zerbo as the country’s new prime minister in accordance with the law.
Zerbo, a 58-year-old geophysicist and former head of the nuclear watchdog, is expected to take on the task of dealing with the growing instability due to security concerns that have plagued Burkina Faso for years.
“President … orders: Lassina Zerbo has been appointed prime minister,” Stephane Wenceslas Sanou, a spokesman for the state, said in a statement on television.
A new cabinet line is expected in the coming days.
Zerbo was the general secretary of the Vienna-based Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) from 2013 until August.
It is unknown to most Burkinabes people but is well-known in other lands for its efforts to curb nuclear weapons.
Forced to change, Kabore dismissal Prime Minister Christophe Dabire Wednesday, the latest unrest in a leadership crisis involving military officials.
Opposition groups and opposition groups have repeatedly expressed dissatisfaction with the government’s handling of the security situation, marching on the streets demanding the resignation of Kabore.
At the end of November, 10 people were injured, including a child and two journalists, when police used tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters in the capital, Ouagadougou.
The rise of violence
Burkina Faso is embroiled in controversy that has spread across the arid Sahel region, killing thousands of people, forcing millions more to leave their homes and leaving behind a major humanitarian crisis.
Despite efforts by local forces and a former French colonial ruler, attacks by ISIL (ISIS) and al-Qaeda-based forces continue, leaving local areas at risk.
In Burkina Faso, the threat of violence reached last month when most people, especially men, were men. killed in the north of the country.
Two weeks before the attack, the police had warned the headquarters that they were in need of food and that they would have to trap the animals for food.
They had been waiting for several days to find an army to help the victims when they were attacked by hundreds of soldiers in motorcycles and motorcycles, according to reports of the war.
Before the new Prime Minister was named, on Friday night, Kabore called on all Burkinabes to join the terrorist movement to end “terrorism”.
“I urge all the girls and boys of our tribe to help in the war, each one according to his ability,” he said, without elaborating.
Late Thursday, troops from Burkina Faso and neighboring Niger said they had killed at least 100 “terrorists” in a militant group on the border of November 25 and December 9.
They also broke two foundations, one on both sides of the border, he said in a joint statement.
Kabore was first elected in 2015, a year after Blaise Compaore, who seized power in 1987, was forced by a series of high-profile protests to retain power.
