Ali Lamine Zeine
Ali Mahamane Lamine Zeine (born 1965) is a Nigerien politician and economist who has served as the prime minister of Niger since 2023. He was appointed prime minister by the Niger military junta on 8 August 2023, and appointed finance minister on 10 August 2023. He previously served as minister of the Economy and Finance from 2003 to 2010. Biography Ali Lamine Zeine was born in 1965 in Zinder and graduated from the Centre for Financial, Economic and Banking Studies in Marseille and Paris-I. He has worked as a resident representative of the African Development Bank in Chad, Ivory Coast and Gabon. After serving as Director of the Cabinet of President Mamadou Tandja, Zeine was appointed to the government as Minister of the Economy and Finance on 24 October 2003. After newspaper editor Boussada Ben Ali alleged that Zeine had stolen money that was part of an oil contract between Niger and China, Ben Ali was arrested on 23 January 2009 and sentenced to three months in prison f ...
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