Blaise Compaoré

There is method in Liberia's and Burkina Faso's new strategy: pressure is mounting on Presidents Charles Taylor and Blaise Compaoré after a series of UN reports detailing the involvement of senior Monrovia and Ouagadougou officials in gun-running and gem-smuggling from RUF-held areas of Sierra Leone...

Other alleged contributors to NPP funds were Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo and Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaoré - both as keen to see the back of Rawlings as Eyadéma albeit for different reasons...

Ingredients for war As in the wars in Liberia Sierra Leone and Guinea it may be politic to blame the crisis on a few evil men - Liberia's warlord-turned-President Charles Taylor and Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaoré (accused of gun-running and diamond-smuggling in two UN reports)...

He quit his Ottawa job and flew to Burkina Faso where he met President Blaise Compaoré...

At the end of Kadré's reign Foreign Minister Youssouf Ouédraogo was being referred to as 'the real prime minister' being the closest of the ministers to President Blaise Compaoré and his court...

The presidency has been trying to keep a safe distance from the echoes of Zongo's murder and from the conviction in August of four members of his RSP guards for the murder of David Ouédraogo chauffeur to Blaise Compaoré's younger brother François; the official line is that justice will pursue its course...

Fingers increasingly point at Burkina's Blaise Compaoré and Liberia's Charles Taylor as chief sponsors of the instability...

President Blaise Compaoré has been stuck in a political crisis for two years...

Konaré has asked Burkina's President Blaise Compaoré and Chadian President Idriss Déby to intercede on his behalf - and the first country to ratify the African Union treaty was Mali...

This time they have Liberian and Burkinabè Presidents Charles Taylor and Blaise Compaoré in their sights...

Conté fears that Taylor and President Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso will turn on Guinea after Sierra Leone...