BAMAKO, Mali (AP) Mali's new president has chosen a former special adviser at a West African regional bank as his prime minister.
The selection of Oumar Tatam Ly was announced late Thursday, a day after President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita was sworn into office.
Keita emerged as the overwhelming winner of Mali's runoff election but now inherits a country brought to the brink of ruin by a rebellion, a coup and an Islamic insurgency.
The instability unraveled Mali's economy and laid bare ethnic tensions that led to reprisal killings in the wake of a French-led military intervention.
Keita is expected to announce the rest of his government this weekend. The prime minister pick previously served as a special adviser to the governor of the Central Bank of West African States.
