- Vol 54 No 10
- 10th May 2013
The President’s control of national politics may be sure and his international backing stronger than ever but his succession strategy is risky
- Vol 54 No 10
- 10th May 2013
President Blaise Compaoré is married to Chantal Terrasson de Fougères, a protégée of the late Ivorian President Félix Houphouët-Boigny. She runs several businesses and charities.
- Vol 54 No 10
- 10th May 2013
Burkina Faso is enjoying a mining boom which provides the ruling clan with wiggle room. Gold is now the leading source of export earnings, followed by the traditional main export, cotton.
- Vol 52 No 9
- 29th April 2011
After his regional mediation, President Compaoré is now threatened by a national crisis of his own making
- Vol 51 No 24
- 3rd December 2010
Apathy and a chronically low turn out meant that President Compaoré could have won comfortably without bothering to steal votes
- Vol 50 No 22
- 6th November 2009
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 ...
- Vol 50 No 5
- 6th March 2009
President Blaise Compaoré is getting ready for his re-election in November next year, two decades after the murder of Thomas Sankara
- Vol 50 No 5
- 6th March 2009
François Compaoré, the President's brother, and a lawyer named Sankara (but no relation) are just some of the applicants queuing for the top job
- Vol 46 No 24
- 2nd December 2005
The election was not democratic but the President's allies go
on backing him
- Vol 46 No 24
- 2nd December 2005
There is no challenger to President Blaise Compaoré's dominance of Burkina Faso's politics. If he chooses in 2010, he may amend Article 37 (2000) of the constitution and give himself a third presidential term. He had already served two terms by the...