Blaise Compaoré

Much was read into the absence of some of Nigeria's neighbours - Presidents Charles Taylor of Liberia and Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso (both of whom Nigeria accuses of backing the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone) plus President Paul Biya from Cameroon whose country continues to pursue claims against Abuja for the Bakassi Peninsula...

Key to UNITA’s success has been the retraining of officers in Morocco (several hundred Moroccan soldiers are said to be helping with logistics and communications in the north-east following meetings in 1998 between Jonas Savimbi and King Hassan II) and help from Francophone sympathisers such as Togo’s Gnassingbé Eyadéma and Burkina Faso’s Blaise Compaoré with arms procurement and transshipment...

His former supporters in Paris regard Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaoré as a more acceptable operator in West Africa...

Burkina Faso’s strongman Blaise Compaoré is more concerned with maintaining his influence after 2000 having managed to get the UEOMA commission installed in Ouagadougou to offset the influence of Dakar and of Abidjan (where the Finance Minister N’Goran Niamien is struggling to keep domestic expenditure within the tight limits of the IMF’s Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility...

It seems Taylor and his key ally Burkina Faso’s President Blaise Compaoré envisage a string of military-style states from Niger through to Guinea Guinea Bissau and Gambia...

The turnout in 1997 was dismal – a point noted by Konaré’s Burkinabè counterpart Blaise Compaoré who pulled out the stops in November to secure a poll turnout near 60 per cent...

Ouedraogo and his President Blaise Compaoré take pride in their impoverished country's regional diplomacy...

The show was organised by southerner Madani Lazhari who has a law degree from Nice France and is Comessa’s Secretary General and Libya’s Ambassador to Burkina Faso where he maintains an alliance that was once with Thomas Sankara and is now with the man who overthrew him Blaise Compaoré...

The ambassadors sent to investigate reported in August to the OAU mediation committee headed by Burkinabè President Blaise Compaoré and also including Djibouti and Zimbabwe...

Many Sierra Leoneans believe that they come from elements in Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia government and Blaise Compaoré's regime in Burkina Faso...