Salif Diallo

The MPP appeared directionless after the death two years ago of its president Salif Diallo...

Since the death of its grand political organiser and manipulator Salif Diallo the MPP has been in trouble (AC Vol 58 No 17 Diallo buried with his secrets)...

Salif Diallo a consummate political operator who reinvented himself for the post-Compaoré age died unexpectedly at the age on 60 on 19 August in Paris...

Many concluded that Burkina's ancien régime still exercised influence especially as it came only a week after the Minister of Territorial Administration and Security Simon Compaoré the National Assembly President Salif Diallo and Foreign Minister Alpha Barry a former journalist met Ouattara in Abidjan to discuss economic cooperation...

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...

The MPP leaders – President Kaboré National Assembly President Salif Diallo and Interior and Security Minister Simon Compaoré (no relation) – were key figures for 26 of Blaise Compaoré's 27 years in power and have good reason to keep revelations about his past activities to a minimum (AC Vol 56 No 24 Vive la différence)...

Pingrénoma Zagré and the new National Assembly President Salif Diallo to manage his government's response...

There are also discussions about getting rid of Salif Diallo the former ruling party stalwart who is now a key member of President-elect Roch Marc Christian Kaboré's Mouvement du peuple pour le progrès and Chérif Moumina Sy chairman of the transitional Parliament (AC Vol 56 No 24 Vive la différence and Vol 55 No 24 Truth and reconciliation)...

He and two other close allies of Compaoré – Salif Diallo and Simon Compaoré former Mayor of Ouagadougou – then set up the Mouvement du peuple pour le progrès (AC Vol 55 No 2 Rising up against Compaoré)...

Together with Salif Diallo and Simon Compaoré Kaboré formed the MPP and took many CDP rank-and-file – not to mention party secrets – with them...