Mauritania: Prime Minister reappointed hours after resigning

Mauritania's Prime Minister Mokhtar Ould Djay resigned on Friday after a scathing report on two major electric facility fires, but he was reappointed hours later and asked to form a new government. His resignation after more than two years in office came after President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani received a report on Thursday detailing multiple shortcomings leading to the blazes in August.

The two men met later Friday and Ghazouani reappointed him prime minister and tasked him with forming a new government, the official Mauritanian news agency said. He has been tasked with forming a new government and said that he "naturally expressed his gratitude and appreciation to the President for this task."