Blaise Compaoré

Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaoré is the latest in a series of African leaders on overseas visits to be harried by human rights organisations...

Yet if the pair are kept away Brazzaville's strongman will be well on the way to becoming the Blaise Compaoré of Central Africa...

There has been a reluctance to push Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaoré on human rights abuses or on charges that he has connived in arms-and-diamond dealing with Liberian President Charles Taylor...

Presidents Blaise Compaoré (Burkina) and Idriss Déby (Chad) joined them later...

Minin's arrest has provided sheaves of documents detailing the business partnerships of Charles Taylor and Burkinabè President Blaise Compaoré...

But CWI currently lobbyists for President Blaise Compaoré's regime in Burkina Faso and former lobbyists for President Charles Taylor's Liberian regime are veterans of fighting unpopular causes...

Discussion grew animated when British and French officials were asked if their views on Presidents Charles Taylor's and Blaise Compaoré's support for the Revolutionary United Front had indeed converged...

Banya failed to win the argument for sanctions against Liberia in the Economic Community of West African States: at first Guinean President Lansana Conteh's and Kabbah's governments were totally outmanoeuvred by Liberian President Charles Taylor and Burkina Faso's Blaise Compaoré and their ally Malian President Alpha Oumar Konaré current chairman of ECOWAS...

Beyond arrangements to swap personnel and intelligence British officials believe they have persuaded French colleagues to look more closely at the links between Burkina Faso's Blaise Compaoré and Liberia's Charles Taylor and the spreading war in West Africa...

Chirac and Gbagbo also held a mini-summit with regional leaders Blaise Compaoré Gnassingbé Eyadéma Alpha Omar Konaré and Abdoulaye Wade to discuss security in Côte d'Ivoire...