Yacouba Isaac Zida

The RSP took Interim President Kafando and his Prime Minister Yacouba Isaac Zida hostage and after a night of confusion declared the transitional institutions dissolved...

Interim Prime Minister Lieutenant Colonel Yacouba Isaac Zida whom the RSP regards as a traitor to his old comrades-in-arms lost the Defence portfolio on 19 July...

Yacouba Isaac Zida and also the charismatic face of the transition...

The Sonabhy Director Boukary Jean-Baptiste de la Salle Béréhoundougou was among the first to be fired by Interim Prime Minister Yacouba Isaac Zida...

An experienced diplomat Michel Kafando 72 leads the transition as Interim President and Minister of Foreign Affairs while Lieutenant Colonel Yacouba Isaac Zida 49 formerly number two in the presidential guard the Régiment de sécurité présidentielle (RSP) is Premier and Defence Minister...

Early in his new job Interim Prime Minister Yacouba Isaac Zida sprang two surprises (AC Vol 55 No 22 Pressure mounts on Zida)...

Gradually towards the end of the country's most turbulent week ever stability coalesced around the unlikely figure of Lieutenant Colonel Yacouba Isaac Zida number two in the presidential guard the Régiment de la sécurité présidentielle (RSP)...