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Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso
Population: 14.6 mn.
GDP: 8.9 bn.
Debt: 1.3 bn.
Overview:

After protests and military mutinies President Blaise Compaoré will fail to change the constitution and secure another term for 2015. He faces growing opposition in 2012's elections.

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  • Vol 52 No 9
  •  29th April 2011

Beau Blaise loses it

After his regional mediation, President Compaoré is now threatened by a national crisis of his own making

  • Vol 51 No 24
  •  3rd December 2010

Modesty Blaise

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

To catch a thief

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

A brutal family business

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

Waiting in the wings

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

Five years

The election was not democratic but the President's allies go on backing him

  • Vol 46 No 24
  •  2nd December 2005

Strong boss, weaker party

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...

  • Vol 46 No 23
  •  18th November 2005

Disbelief suspended

The big question about the presidential election on 13 November was the size of victory that incumbent Blaise Compaoré, 54, would choose to declare. In 1998, he won with 87.5 per cent. This time, pre-election polls gave him 67.4 per cent.

  • Vol 43 No 16
  •  9th August 2002

Blaise wins again

Both the President and the opposition seem to be aiming for respectability

  • Vol 43 No 4
  •  22nd February 2002

106 Executions

Trigger-happy President Blaise Compaoré's human rights embarrassments have gone from bad to worse with an assault on 6 February from Amnesty International over 106 extrajudicial executions documented since the launch of an anti-banditry campaign in...

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