Blaise Compaoré

The summit duly condemned the Chadian rebels and sent as mediators three one-time coup-makers - Presidents Denis Sassou Nguesso of Congo-Brazzaville Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso and Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi of Libya (who once sent his tanks into Chad)...

Burkina Faso’s President Blaise Compaoré may act as mediator...

BURKINA FASO: Shaken by days of fighting in the capital between police and army at the start of 2007 President Blaise Compaoré ended the year in a more solid position...

As for the business of getting on with it Koroma has so far made flying visits to his equivalents in neighbouring Liberia and Guinea as well as to see the Economic Community of West African States Chairman Blaise Compaoré the President of Burkina Faso...

Both Burkinabé President Blaise Compaoré and Gadaffi supplied arms to Liberian warlord Charles Taylor who now faces trial for crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court in the Hague...

Troops were sent by Nigeria's own army junta wary of Freetown's new rulers and their allies such as Liberia's Charles Ghankay Taylor and Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaoré...

Yet regional leaders led by Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaoré currently Ecowas Chairman sent a letter of protest to Johnson-Sirleaf which we hear called for the case to be suspended...

President Laurent Gbagbo likes the 4 March peace accord signed with rebel leader Guillaume Soro under the auspices of Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaoré...

Chirac publicly commended the mediation between the Ivorian government and the opposition Forces Nouvelles undertaken by Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaoré...

This raises the question of whether President Blaise Compaoré still controls the army that put him in power...