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...

As protestors take to the streets to demand tougher action by President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré against jihadist attacks vast areas of the country's northern region have become a no-go zone...

He has extensively consulted Sahelian partners particularly his trusted allies Presidents Mohamed Bazoum Mohamed Ould Cheikh el Ghazouani and Roch Kaboré of Niger Mauritania and Burkina Faso respectively over the shape of the redeployment (AC Vol 62 No 15 Burkina without Barkhane)...

At the beginning of July a furious public reaction to the atrocity led President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré to sack Defence Minister Cherif Sy and Security Minister Ousseni Compaoré and take the portfolios for himself...

As President Roch Kaboré's government argues about the treatment of exiled former president Blaise Compaoré the military courts seem determined to throw the book at him...

Eddie Komboïgo Compaoré's political heir and leader of his ruling party the Congrès pour la démocratie et le progrès (CDP) has said that President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré made him a personal promise to facilitate the former leader's return from exile 'within six months' on the understanding that Compaoré stays out of politics...

The Commission électorale nationale indépendante (CENI) led by former journalist Newton Ahmed Barry had just formally given President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré 57...