Ablassé Ouédraogo

They are 71-year-old former foreign minister Ablassé Ouédraogo kidnapped on Christmas Eve last year (his party Le Faso Autrement demanded his release on 21 February) Daouda Diallo of the Collectif contre l'impunitéet la Stigmatisation des Communautés and anti-corruption activist Issiaka Ouédraogo...

As five losing candidates including Tahirou Barry and Ablassé Ouédraogo sent congratulatory messages to Kaboré within hours of CENI's announcement the much-vaunted electoral pact that was supposed to deliver victory to a united opposition unravelled...

Among the six others now in this pact with Diabré and Komboïgo are ironically KADO and a former foreign minister Ablassé Ouédraogo (AC Vol 56 No 4 Between street and barracks) who earned all-round condemnation during the 2015 campaign after he had claimed that being Mossi and Muslim should be sufficient to qualify for the job of head of state...

If the presidential poll does not produce a winner there are two possible kingmakers: the lawyer and Sankarist activist Stanlislas Bénéwendé Sankara (no relation) and the diplomat-cum-soldier Ablassé Ouédraogo...

On 24 September Ablassé Ouedraogo an advisor to the Ecowas Chairman and former WTO and African Development Bank senior official said there would be no signing of the Economic Partnership Agreements with the EU on 31 December a view echoed by ministers in Ghana last week...

Annan's optimism was backed by Burkinabé Foreign Minister Ablasse Ouedraogo who confidently asserted that an Organisation of African Unity summit on the war in Ouagadougou on 17-18 December would draw up to 25 African presidents...

Such unfolding diplomacy and conflict somewhat deflated the grand agenda drawn up by Burkinabè Foreign Minister Ablassé Ouedraogo himself a veteran UN and OAU diplomat to strengthen the OAU's conflict prevention and management mechanism...

The African objectors at the pre-summit ministers' meetings were headed by Ablasse Ouedraogo Foreign Minister of Burkina Faso supported by Amara Essy of Côte d'Ivoire and Moustapha Niasse of Senegal...