{"id":4787,"date":"2014-08-13T14:09:38","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T07:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4787"},"modified":"2014-08-13T14:09:38","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T07:09:38","slug":"central-african-republic-names-first-muslim-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/central-africa\/central-african-republic\/central-african-republic-names-first-muslim-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Central African Republic names first Muslim prime minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bangui (Central African Republic) (AFP) &#8211; The Central African Republic named its first Muslim prime minister on Sunday as part of an effort to create a more inclusive government and end more than a year of sectarian violence.<\/p>\n<p>Mahamat Kamoun, a former special advisor to interim president Catherine Samba-Panza, will lead a transitional government that is seeking to implement a precarious ceasefire signed late last month.<\/p>\n<p>He was appointed by presidential decree, according to an announcement on state radio by a presidential spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>An expert in finance, Kamoun was the director general of the treasury under former president Francois Bozize, in power from 2003 to March 2013&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Central African Republic News\" href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/central-africa-republic-appoints-muslim-prime-minister-151133671.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Central Africa <a title=\"Central African Republic\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/central-africa\/central-african-republic\/\">Central African Republic<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangui (Central African Republic) (AFP) &#8211; The Central African Republic named its first Muslim prime minister on Sunday as part of an effort to create a more inclusive government and end more than a year of sectarian violence. Mahamat Kamoun, a former special advisor to interim president Catherine Samba-Panza, will lead a transitional government that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[252],"tags":[258,256,465,302,4696,4689,303,2535,3544,3543,257,254,1511],"class_list":["post-4787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-central-african-republic","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bangui","tag-car","tag-central-africa","tag-central-african-republic","tag-central-african-republic-news","tag-francois-bozize","tag-mahamat-kamoun","tag-muslim-prime-minister","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-transitional-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}