Blaise Compaoré

Foreign principal: Sanne Topan Office of President Blaise Compaoré...

The United Nations' latest exercise in naming and shaming sanctions-busters may see the international isolation of Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaoré and Togo's President Gnassingbé Eyadéma for their roles in supplying arms to Jonas Savimbi's Angolan rebels and buying diamonds from them...

Burkina Faso's Blaise Compaoré has survived a tricky year but could yet lose out thanks to France's modernisers...

Burkina's President Blaise Compaoré in Abidjan for the funeral of his Ivorian father-in-law on 13 November had private talks with Bédié...

Pushing Sankoh and co The job now is to put pressure on Corporal Foday Sankoh's Revolutionary United Front and on his sponsors presidents Charles Taylor in Liberia and Blaise Compaoré in Burkina Faso to comply with the peace accord...

The government talks of 'national reconciliation'; its critics put it another way saying that President Blaise Compaoré's regime wants to wipe away its bloodstained image...

Army sources say that Presidential Guard members in January 1998 tortured to death in their premises David Ouédraogo a childhood friend of Blaise Compaoré's and driver for his younger brother François Compaoré...

Diamond-driven The agreement calculates that RUF leaders such as Sankoh and Sam Bockarie and their sponsors - Liberia's President Charles Taylor and Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaoré - have more to gain by cooperating with regional power Nigeria and the UN than by continuing their war against the Kabbah government and Sierra Leone's civilians...

Acceptance of the framework now means mediation will be led by a smaller group headed by Bouteflika (more flexible than the grandiose heads of state committee led last year by Burkina Faso's Blaise Compaoré)...

In April they were invited to Ouagadougou to discuss a mediation plan with President Blaise Compaoré outgoing Chairman of the OAU But Sassou doesn't trust Compaoré and fears upsetting Angola which objects to Compaoré's support for Jonas Savimbi of the União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola...

Much was read into the absence of some of Nigeria's neighbours - Presidents Charles Taylor of Liberia and Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso (both of whom Nigeria accuses of backing the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone) plus President Paul Biya from Cameroon whose country continues to pursue claims against Abuja for the Bakassi Peninsula...