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Burkina Faso

Salif Diallo

Date of Birth: 9 May 1957
Died: 19 August 2017


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Between street and barracks

Kaboré and his two lieutenants former CDP Vice-President Salif Diallo and the longest serving Mayor of Ouagadougou Simon Compaoré now form the triumvirate at the helm of the MPP...


Watching the dust settle

The performance of the Mouvement du peuple pour le progrès (MPP) of former CDP bigwigs Roch Marie Christian Kaboré Salif Diallo and Ouagadougou ex-Mayor Simon Compaoré will be watched with keen interest (AC Vol 55 No 3 Blaise wants compromise)...


Tight spot for Blaise

Led by former CDP leaders Roch Marc Christian Kaboré Salif Diallo and Simon Compaoré the party is building up a strong national following...


Blaise wants compromise

Roch Marc Christian Kaboré is the President of the new Mouvement du peuple pour le progrès (MPP) with Salif Diallo and Simon Compaoré as first and second Vice-Presidents (AC Vol 55 No 2 Rising up against Compaoré)...


Rising up against Compaoré

Salif Diallo the former Agriculture Minister and a founder member of the Congrès pour la démocratie et le progrès Roch Marc Christian Kaboré CDP Chairman until March 2012 and National Assembly President and Simon Compaoré (no relation) Mayor of Ouagadougou until January 2012 issued a joint statement on 4 January taking issue with Compaoré's 11 December declaration on term limits...


Keeping up with the Compaorés

Most notable among them are a former party chief and ex-Chairman of the National Assembly Roch Marc Christian Kaboré who was gradually squeezed out of the party last year and former Agriculture Minister Salif Diallo who is dead against the rise of François and works in Niger as an advisor to President Mahamadou Issoufou...


A brutal family business

One main clan is led by the party President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré another by its Secretary General Ouagadougou Mayor Simon Compaoré with former Agriculture Minister Salif Diallo...


Waiting in the wings

He took the lead when Fedap-BC was launched in April 2008 and is suspected of having engineered the firing of a rival Salif Diallo from the Agriculture Ministry in March 2008...


Five years

Compaoré's campaign manager and closest political ally Salif Diallo welcomed Gbagbo's statement...


Strong boss, weaker party

Salif Diallo was a combative campaign leader and is Agriculture Minister in a country where farming accounts for 70 per cent of livelihoods...


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