Blaise Compaoré

Ingredients for war As in the wars in Liberia Sierra Leone and Guinea it may be politic to blame the crisis on a few evil men - Liberia's warlord-turned-President Charles Taylor and Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaoré (accused of gun-running and diamond-smuggling in two UN reports)...

He quit his Ottawa job and flew to Burkina Faso where he met President Blaise Compaoré...

At the end of Kadré's reign Foreign Minister Youssouf Ouédraogo was being referred to as 'the real prime minister' being the closest of the ministers to President Blaise Compaoré and his court...

The presidency has been trying to keep a safe distance from the echoes of Zongo's murder and from the conviction in August of four members of his RSP guards for the murder of David Ouédraogo chauffeur to Blaise Compaoré's younger brother François; the official line is that justice will pursue its course...

Fingers increasingly point at Burkina's Blaise Compaoré and Liberia's Charles Taylor as chief sponsors of the instability...

President Blaise Compaoré has been stuck in a political crisis for two years...

Konaré has asked Burkina's President Blaise Compaoré and Chadian President Idriss Déby to intercede on his behalf - and the first country to ratify the African Union treaty was Mali...

This time they have Liberian and Burkinabè Presidents Charles Taylor and Blaise Compaoré in their sights...

Conté fears that Taylor and President Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso will turn on Guinea after Sierra Leone...

Not only is France the Western power best disposed towards Liberia's President Charles Taylor (he was treated to a lavish state visit to Paris two years ago) but French President Jacques Chirac is an enthusiastic ally of Burkinabè President Blaise Compaoré...

Any new UN strategy must take both wings of the RUF into account along with their continued sponsorship by both Taylor and his ally President Blaise Compaoré...