The meeting will confirm President Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso as a diplomatic heavyweight...
He visited Burkina and Libya ostensibly for the opening of Tripoli's Great Man- Made River project; Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi and Captain Blaise Compaoré have been Taylor's key suppliers of weapons and training and of soldiers (at least in Burkina's case) since his rebellion started in 1990...
The likely winner he is moreover favoured by neighbouring rulers such as: Abdou Diouf Henri Konan Bédié Lamine Zeroual Gnassingbé Eyadèma Blaise Compaoré Omar Bongo and Mathieu Kérékou...
The likely winner he is moreover favoured by neighbouring rulers such as: Abdou Diouf Henri Konan Bédié Lamine Zeroual Gnassingbé Eyadèma Blaise Compaoré Omar Bongo and Mathieu Kérékou...
The same can be said of Presidents Blaise Compaoré (Burkina Faso) and Gnassingbé Eyadèma (Togo): even though Eyadèma had once come to blows with Kérékou he was still distrustful of Soglo's contacts with the Togolese opposition...
The BCEAO has said it will help with encouragement from Burkina Faso's Blaise Compaoré Côte d'Ivoire's Henri Konan Bédié Mali's Alpha Omar Konaré Senegal's Abdou Diouf and Togo's Gnassingbé Eyadèma...