Roch Marc Christian Kaboré

That had also been the reaction of President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré's administration to the jihadist advance and the MPSR deposed it partly for that reason (AC Vol 60 No 13 Gag on security reporting)...

The MPSR took over in response to President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré's inability to deal with a worsening Islamist insurgency (AC Vol 63 No 3 Another domino falls to the military)...

The standoff in Ouagadougou is between two heavily armed factions within the MPSR one of which consisted of elements from the elite anti-terrorist Cobra unit created by former President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré in 2019 which turned against Damiba over salaries...

President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré had been re-elected in November 2020 but the security situation was getting worse every day of the week...

Goodwill has also resulted from former President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré who was deposed in January being granted genuine full freedom of movement...

They included apart from Compaoré himself the just-ousted Roch Marc Christian Kaboré interim post-Compaoré presidents Michel Kafando and Yacouba Isaac Zida and Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo who briefly ran the country in 1982-83 before he was deposed by the man whose ghost dominated all the proceedings Sankara...

The prosecution of Compaoré backed by Sankara's family was briefly paused after Damiba and his fellow officers seized power on 24 January overthrowing elected President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré...

Six months later addressing students in Ouagadougou came an off-the-cuff joke at the expense of Burkinabè head of state Roch Marc Christian Kaboré...

A model for such focused partnerships is offered by the collaboration between Burkina Faso and the French Barkhane force instigated at the end of last year by then-President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré and which has continued since he was deposed in the 24 January coup (AC Vol 63 No 3 Another domino falls to the military)...

And Burkina Faso's new military rulers led by Lt Col Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba who ousted President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré on 24 January have joined the axis of colonels in West Africa although they have been treading more cautiously than their counterparts in Bamako and Conakry (AC Vol 63 No 3 Another domino falls to the military)...

In different ways jihadist insurgents linked to Al Qaida and Da'ish (Islamic State or ISIS) and the Wagner Group have been boosted by the fall of Roch Marc Christian Kaboré's government on 24 January (AC Vol 63 No 1 Jihadist terror tops the agenda)...

Both the deposed civilian presidents in Burkina Faso and Mali Roch Marc Christian Kaboré and the late Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta were within their constitutionally-allowed limit of two terms of office...

President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré courts intense public anger over the lack of progress in the fight against terrorism and even risks being ousted in an army coup if things do not improve...