General Gilbert Diendéré

Kaboré's past could become an embarrassment especially as the trial of General Gilbert Diendéré gets under way for his role in last September's failed coup (AC Vol 56 No 20 The General's last days)...

Gilbert Diendéré the security pillar of Compaoré's fallen regime will be tried for killings related to the failed coup and also for his role in the death of Captain Thomas Sankara in 1987...

The coup leader General Gilbert Diendéré was taken into custody...

He meant General Gilbert Diendéré who had just given himself up (see Box Black box may keep its secrets)...

Black box may keep its secrets When Nestor Bassière Vice-President of the Union pour la renaissance-Parti sankariste declared that the 'Black box' had been found he reminded everyone that if any one person knows where all the bodies of Blaise Compaoré's regime are buried it is General Gilbert Diendéré...

Ivorian sources suggest as Africa Confidential reported that General Gilbert Diendéré had been to Abidjan to consult his former boss about the coup plans (AC Vol 56 No 19 The people take on the putschists)...

The presence of coup leader General Gilbert Diendéré flanked by soldiers from the Régiment de sécurité présidentielle (RSP) to welcome West African leaders at Ouagadougou airport on 23 September casts further doubt on the negotiations to end the coup...

Gilbert Diendéré the cornerstone of Compaoré's security and intelligence system...

Compaoré thought so highly of Dadis that he sent the pillar of the security state General Gilbert Diendéré to go with Dadis when he went home to bury his mother in 2013...

Gilbert Diendéré a keystone of the old regime was present throughout: he may have moved his office to Camp Guillaume the seat of the regular army next to the symbolic Place de la Nation where the revolution began but he remains a brooding presence and critical interlocutor when it comes to the RSP...

There will be no place for the much despised RSP whose key man was the recently sacked Special Chief of Staff Brigadier General Gilbert Diendéré Zida's one-time boss...

The government has also sought to quell revolutionary ardour by removing Brigadier General Gilbert Diendéré – who knows more than anyone else about the fate of Zongo and Sankara – from his post as head of presidential security...

Gilbert Diendéré a pillar of Compaoré's regime implicated in his stratagems and abuses...