Roch Marc Christian Kaboré

Prime Minister Paul Kaba Tieba and his government resigned en masse last month after President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré demanded a government shake-up in the wake of the violence...

The warmth of his reception outweighed those given to Rwanda's President Paul Kagame who was greeted by hundreds of Brussels's Rwandan expats – both supporters and opponents – while Niger's Mahamadou Issoufou and Burkina Faso's Roch Marc Christian Kaboré went almost unnoticed...

They may serve to warn the current government which is run by two of Blaise Compaoré's former friends – President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré and Simon Compaoré now Minister of State at the Presidency – not to take this justice business too far...

Coulibaly is part of a 13-strong faction within the opposition Union pour le progrès et le changement (UPC) led by Zéphirin Diabré who came second in the November 2015 presidential election behind Roch Marc Christian Kaboré...

No information has emerged from bilateral talks Macron held with his Burkinabè counterpart Roch Marc Christian Kaboré but they are likely to have discussed François's fate French support for the African G5 anti-terror force and economic aid...

Even in his final political home co-founded with other once-staunch ancien régime stalwarts Roch Marc Christian Kaboré and security minister Simon Compaoré the preferred term of address remains 'Camarade' (comrade)...

Last October Public Prosecutor Armand Ouédraogo leading the prosecution threw out the high treason charge against Compaoré under pressure from President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré's government which was feeling heat from Compaoré's Ivorian hosts (AC Vol 58 No 6 More progress less movement)...

Ironically only a week earlier President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré had rolled out the red carpet for his Ivorian counterpart N'Guessan's sworn political enemy President Alassane Dramane Ouattara...

The new government of President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré authorised Tambao operations to begin again last December but nothing happened...

Six months into the presidency of Roch Marc Christian Kaboré frustration is mounting with a government that appears to have no idea how to pull the country out of its post-transition morass...

This upsets the victims' immediate families and the public at large but not Roch Kaboré Salif Diallo and Simon Compaoré founders and leaders of the MPP...