
Ali Lamine Zeine (1965-) was Prime Minister of Niger from 8 August 2023, succeeding Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou.
Biography[]
Ali Lamine Zeine was born in Zinder, Niger in 1965, and he worked as a representative of the African Development Ban in Chad, Ivory Coast, and Gabon before serving as Director of the Cabinet of President Mamadou Tandja and as Finance Minister from 2002 to 2010. In 2009, he was accused of stealing money that was part of an oil contract between Niger and China, but it was the journalist who made the accusation who was sentenced to three months in prison for "disseminating false information." Zeine was surveilled by the military junta that seized power from Tandja in the 2010 Nigerien coup d'etat, only for the CNSP junta to name Zeine as their prime minister in 2023 following the 2023 Nigerien coup d'etat.