{"id":24337,"date":"2016-04-03T02:42:28","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T02:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/central-african-republic-president-names-new-pm\/"},"modified":"2016-04-03T02:42:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T02:42:17","slug":"central-african-republic-president-names-new-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/central-african-republic-president-names-new-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Central African Republic president names new PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{President Faustin-Archange Touadera appoints former campaign director Simplice Sarandji to prime minister post.}<\/p>\n<p>Faustin-Archange Touadera, the Central African Republic&#8217;s new President, has named his former campaign director Simplice Sarandji as the country&#8217;s prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The president of the republic, head of state, in light of the constitution of the Central African Republic of March 30, 2016 &#8230; decrees Mr. Simplice Sarandji to be named prime minister, head of the government,&#8221; a presidential decree released on Saturday said.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear when Sarandji would name his cabinet but an announcement was expected in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>Touadera, a former prime minister and mathematics teacher, was elected president in February, replacing a transitional government that had held power since early 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Touadera has pledged to bring peace and development to the former French colony. The country was hit by religious and inter-commununal conflict in 2013, when a mostly Muslim rebel group, Seleka, toppled longtime ruler Francois Bozize.<\/p>\n<p>That prompted a counter-attack by a Christian militia known as the anti-Balaka. Three years of bloodshed and the displacement of nearly one million people from their homes have since disrupted harvests and sent food prices soaring.<\/p>\n<p>In March, the World Food Programme (WFP) said that at least half of the population &#8211; or 2.5 million people &#8211; were facing a hunger crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Bienvenu Djossa, the WFP country director in CAR, said the number of people battling hunger had doubled from 2015.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is serious,&#8221; Djossa said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The WFP said it had only secured about half the $89m it needs until the end of July to respond to the needs of 1.4 million people in CAR and neighbouring countries hosting refugees from there. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-11353 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/165c95813f914a879b696a0d5041e73d_18-2.jpg\" alt=\"President Touadera has pledged to bring peace and development to the former French colony\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{President Faustin-Archange Touadera appoints former campaign director Simplice Sarandji to prime minister post.} Faustin-Archange Touadera, the Central African Republic&#8217;s new President, has named his former campaign director Simplice Sarandji as the country&#8217;s prime minister. &#8220;The president of the republic, head of state, in light of the constitution of the Central African Republic of March 30, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[100],"byline":[2474],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-24337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-48","tag-africa","byline-al-jazeera"],"bylines":[{"id":2474,"name":"AL JAZEERA","slug":"al-jazeera","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2474,"name":"AL JAZEERA","slug":"al-jazeera","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24337"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=24337"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=24337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}