Chad’s new Prime Minister ALLAMAYE HALINA announced his first government on Monday marking an end to three years of military rule in the desert nation.

Senior ministers, mostly allies of President MAHAMAT IDRISS DEBY ITNO, were kept on in the cabinet decree read out on public television.

The former ambassador to China was appointed on Thursday just before junta leader DEBY, an army general, was sworn in as president after an election victory contested by the opposition.

The government will have 35 ministers, 23 of whom served in the previous administration.