Eddie Komboïgo

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...

Of the other 12 candidates only two ended with double digit figures: Wend-Venem Eddie Komboïgo former President Blaise Compaoré's choice with 15...

This is likely to be either the UPC's Diabré or the CDP candidate Eddie Komboïgo a close ally of Compaoré...

Its president Eddie Komboïgo and several top CDP officials have declared their candidacies without waiting for primary elections...

' Throughout May nearly all those gaoled in connection with the 2015 coup attempt were set free on parole including controversially the businessman presidential candidate and Compaoré-confidant Eddie Komboïgo...

Those whose assets have been frozen include: Diendéré and his wife Fatoumata Diallo Diendéré; CDP Chairman Eddie Komboïgo and his predecessor Léonce Koné who publicly welcomed the coup; his brother-in-law and coup-supporter Hermann Yaméogo son of Burkina Faso's founding President Maurice Nawalagmba Yaméogo and a long-standing former political partner of Compaoré; Bamba; Djibril Bassolé; and Col...

Among these were Eddie Komboïgo the new Chairman of Compaoré's old election-winning machine the Congrès pour la démocratie et le progrès...