{{Senegal’s President Macky Sall has fired Prime Minister Abdoul Mbaye, replacing him with Justice Minister Aminata Toure.}}<\/p>\n
“The president has asked me to form and lead a new government…I have accepted the job,” Toure said.<\/p>\n
Presidential spokesman Abou Abel Thiam did not disclose the reason of announcing Mbaye\u2019s departure on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Mbaye, who was not a member of any political party, had been chosen for the post right after Sall’s March 2012 election victory.<\/p>\n
Mbaye studied in Senegal and France’s top business schools and previously worked at West Africa’s BCEAO central bank.<\/p>\n
He has been credited with turning around several ailing private banks in the country.<\/p>\n
Sall won a hotly contested presidential election in 2012 against veteran incumbent Abdoulaye Wade, promising to tackle poverty and corruption as a priority and reduce the cost of running the West African state’s government.<\/p>\n
Source: Agencies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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