Mauritania: Premier replaced

Mauritanian President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi on Tuesday appointment Yahya Ould Ahmed El Waghev as the new Prime Minister. El Waghev, Chief Presidential Secretary and the head of the National Pact for Development and Democracy (PNDD-ADIL), replaced Zein Ould Zeidane who resigned after an audience with the President at State House in the capital Nouakchott on Tuesday.