Burkina Faso president accepts resignation of PM: decree

Roch Marc Christian Kabore

Roch Marc Christian Kabore waves to supporters at party headquarters in Ouagadougou on December 1, 2015 after winning Burkina Faso's presidential election. He accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Christophe Dabire and his government on December 8, 2021. FILE PHOTO | AFP 

Burkina Faso President Roch Marc Christian Kabore on Wednesday accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Christophe Dabire and his government, a presidential decree said.

In view of "the letter of resignation of December 8," the president decrees that "the duties of Prime Minister Christophe Joseph Marie Dabire are terminated," the government's secretary-general Stephane Wenceslas Sanou said, reading out the decree on public television.