{"id":597,"date":"2017-03-22T01:41:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T01:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/?p=597"},"modified":"2017-03-22T01:41:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T01:41:07","slug":"king-of-morocco-names-saad-eddine-el-othmani-as-new-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2017\/03\/22\/king-of-morocco-names-saad-eddine-el-othmani-as-new-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"King of Morocco names Saad Eddine El Othmani as new prime minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Morocco\u2019s King Mohammed VI has named Saad Eddine El Othmani of the Islamist Justice and Development Party (PJD) as the country\u2019s new prime minister and asked him to form a government, a statement carried by MAP state news agency said on Friday.<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/20170130-african-union-decides-readmit-morocco\" target=\"_blank\">The king<\/a> announced on Wednesday he would replace Abdelilah Benkirane as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/morocco\/\" target=\"_blank\">prime minister<\/a> with another member of the PJD in an effort to break a five-month post-election deadlock.<\/p>\n<p>Othmani was foreign minister from 2011-2013 and had since served as the head of the PJD\u2019s parliamentary group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morocco\u2019s King Mohammed VI has named Saad Eddine El Othmani of the Islamist Justice and Development Party (PJD) as the country\u2019s new prime minister and asked him to form a government, a statement carried by MAP state news agency said on Friday. The king announced on Wednesday he would replace Abdelilah Benkirane as prime minister with another member of the&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2017\/03\/22\/king-of-morocco-names-saad-eddine-el-othmani-as-new-prime-minister\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":598,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}