Blaise Compaoré

President Blaise Compaoré must leave office by the end of 2015 when his constitutional term of office ends...

Having officially been known only as a presidential economic advisor François has been building up a political base at the Fédération associative pour la paix et le progrès avec Blaise Compaoré a party-within-a-party of the CDP (AC Vol 50 No 5 A brutal family business & Waiting in the wings)...

President Blaise Compaoré is married to Chantal Terrasson de Fougères a protégée of the late Ivorian President Félix Houphouët-Boigny...

So far talks brokered by Burkina’s President Blaise Compaoré suggest that the mainly Malian Tuareg rebel groups – the nationalist Mouvement national pour la libération de l’Azawad and the Islamist Ansar Eddine led by veteran Tuareg politician Iyad ag Ghali – may be willing to seek a political settlement with Bamako...

SADI has been scathing about Burkina Faso’s President Blaise Compaoré and his Foreign Minister Djibril Bassolé whom they see as pro-Tuareg and insufficiently respectful of Mali’s sovereignty...

It is increasingly wary of the personal motives of the Ecowas regional mediator Burkina Faso’s President Blaise Compaoré...

One thing on which Ecowas and the AU do see eye-to-eye is the regional mediator Burkinabè President Blaise Compaoré...

Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaoré the official mediator has been dealing with Iyad ag Ghali's Ansar Eddine while contacts with the Mouvement pour l'unicité et le jihad en Afrique de l'Ouest (MUJAO) are handled by President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria whom Ouattara values highly as a regional partner...

Of his cheerleaders only three presidents – Gabon’s Ali Ben Bongo Côte d’Ivoire’s Alassane Dramane Ouattara and Burkina Faso’s Blaise Compaoré – helped at the conference...

and Compaoré The role of Burkina Faso’s President Blaise Compaoré in supporting Taylor and the RUF is documented in the trial judgement on Taylor but he has not been indicted or even called as a witness...

At talks on 4 May in Ouagadougou between a delegation from the junta the Comité national pour le redressement de la démocratie et la restauration de l’état and the Ecowas mediator Burkina Faso’s President Blaise Compaoré a joint communiqué promised further discussion...