Blaise Compaoré

All the lawyers defending 34 ministers in ex-President Blaise Compaoré's last government have walked out after challenging the legitimacy of the Ouagadougou court...

New bureauCompleting the praesidium are former Shell Oil employee Issa Dominique Konaté a Foreign Minister under ex-President Blaise Compaoré and an MPP Campaign Manager plus Rakieta Yaméogo who was Secretary for Women and Gender and Moussa Boly who in 2014 merged his Convention nationale pour le progrès du Burkina with the MPP...

They are more likely to see the hand of ex-President Blaise Compaoré in the government's inability to improve matters than in dark foreign conspiracies...

The project was a priority for the then government of President Blaise Compaoré (AC Vol 56 No 19 Frank's fickle fortunes)...

There is a danger of reverting to the bad old ways of Kaboré's mentor and predecessor Blaise Compaoré...

On 4 June two influential members of Compaoré's formerly ruling party the Congrès pour la démocratie et le progrès (CDP) now in opposition were taken off an Air Burkina aeroplane before it took off for Abidjan where they were going to see Blaise Compaoré and others in his entourage...

He toyed more or less openly with amending the presidential term limits to allow himself a bid for a third term – before taking fright at the fate of Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaoré (AC Vol 57 No 5 Blaise the Ivorian)...

Ivorian President Alassane Dramane Ouattara's decision to protect Burkina Faso's deposed President Blaise Compaoré by granting him citizenship is an act of aggression say many in Ouagadougou (AC Vol 57 No 2 Blaming Blaise & Vol 57 No 4 The long arm of Al Qaida)...

The MPP leaders – President Kaboré National Assembly President Salif Diallo and Interior and Security Minister Simon Compaoré (no relation) – were key figures for 26 of Blaise Compaoré's 27 years in power and have good reason to keep revelations about his past activities to a minimum (AC Vol 56 No 24 Vive la différence)...

He brought the poll date forward this year we hear in order to get the contest out of the way before any momentum could build behind a campaign of popular protest such as that which brought down President Blaise Compaoré in Burkina Faso in 2014...

Ouagadougou is awash with speculation about connections between the jihadists who attacked the capital on 15 January and ex-President Blaise Compaoré's now-disbanded Praetorian guard the Régiment de sécurité présidentielle...

A banker and one-time pillar of the Blaise Compaoré regime Kaboré must now prove that he is different from his old friends in the once-invincible Congrès pour la démocratie et le progrès (CDP) President Compaoré's election-winning machine...

Some of the calls were to Djibril Yipènè Bassolé a Burkinabè Gendarmerie General Foreign Minister and earlier Security Minister under the then President Blaise Compaoré...