Blaise Compaoré

Many attribute the insecurity to the dismantling of the intelligence network created by strongman President Blaise Compaoré deposed in a popular uprising in 2014 and the collapse of his regime's covert deals with militant Islamist leaders but that is academic now and Kaboré seems bereft of alternatives...

Another Abidjan resident Blaise Compaoré Burkina Faso's former autocrat is wanted by the Burkinabè authorities but the Ivorians are in no hurry to send him to Ouagadougou (AC Vol 62 No 10 Sankara's ghost)...

As President Roch Kaboré's government argues about the treatment of exiled former president Blaise Compaoré the military courts seem determined to throw the book at him...

Blaise Compaoré ousted by mass protests in 2014 after he sought a fifth term as president celebrated his 70th birthday on 3 February in his palatial villa in exile in Abidjan (AC Vol 55 No 22 Pressure mounts on Zida)...

Of the other 12 candidates only two ended with double digit figures: Wend-Venem Eddie Komboïgo former President Blaise Compaoré's choice with 15...

Leading contenders for the presidency in November include allies and enemies of Blaise Compaoré the president ousted in 2014...

Heavy salvos can be expected from Kadré Désiré Ouédraogo a former ECOWAS Commission leader who served as Prime Minister in one of ex-President Blaise Compaoré's cabinets...

The Koglwéogo were created by local communities after the ousting of President Blaise Compaoré in 2014 to fight banditry...

The Régiment de sécurité présidentielle (RSP) used to be the elite army unit but it was mainly a presidential guard for President Blaise Compaoré and had to be disbanded after Colonel Gilbert Diendéré led it in the attempted coup of 2015 (AC Vol 56 No 19 The people take on the putschists)...

The leader of former President Blaise Compaoré's now-disbanded Praetorian Guard the Régiment de sécurité présidentielle (RSP) General Gilbert Diendéré got 20 years for 'attacking state security'...

The new code they say will also have a chilling effect on the kind of investigative journalism that made the late Norbert Zongo killed by the clan surrounding former President Blaise Compaoré a national hero and forged Burkina Faso's high reputation for reporting in Francophone Africa (AC Vol 40 No 20 Whodunit...