Blaise Compaoré

Of all West Africa's electoral battles President Blaise Compaoré's fight for re-election after 23 years in power was the least in doubt...

The other key player is President Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso who was widely accused of training and helping to finance the northern rebels...

The General’s aim was also to consult the chief mediator in the Guinean crisis President Blaise Compaoré...

This demand was pushed by the radical FN leader Zacharia Koné who has since been transferred to Ouagadougou where the mediator Burkinabè President Blaise Compaoré can keep an eye on him...

Burkina’s President Blaise Compaoré a regional peacemaker in Côte d’Ivoire Guinea and now Togo was first to publicly congratulate the official winner...

The process is mediated by the Burkinabè President Blaise Compaoré who announced agreement on elections in April or May...

Mediation by Burkina Faso’s President Blaise Compaoré late last year to reform the CENI did not help much...

The choice of Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaoré as chief mediator in Guinea's worsening crisis is curious given that the Burkinabé leader in league with Liberian warlord Charles Taylor had been plotting against the previous Guinean regime under Lieutenant General Lansana Conté: many of Conté's senior officers now serve Captain Moussa Dadis Camara's regime...

The prosecution has alluded to commercial and political links between Taylor Gadaffi and Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaoré whose regime facilitated arms transfers to Taylor and earned illicit revenues from Liberian resources...

Yet no current leader - Presidents Laurent Gbagbo Paul Biya Blaise Compaoré or Denis Sassou-Nguesso - can fulfil the role pioneered by Côte d'Ivoire's President Félix Houphouët-Boigny and continued by the 'Grand Camarade'...