Blaise Compaoré

The mass movement that toppled President Blaise Compaoré last October is at increasing odds with the Régiment de sécurité présidentielle (RSP AC Vol 55 No 22 The warning from Ouagadougou)...

Yet they also seem concerned about the popular overthrow of President Blaise Compaoré in Burkina Faso...

In early November he used his emergency powers to imprison for sedition journalist David Tam Baryoh whose radio show had mentioned the third-term issue and the fate of Burkina Faso's ex-President Blaise Compaoré as well as criticising the government's handling of Ebola (AC Vol 55 No 22 Stepping up the fight against Ebola)...

Dismantling the political and economic system built around ex-President Blaise Compaoré is political military and economic...

The second was that he did not rule out demanding the extradition of deposed President Blaise Compaoré from his Moroccan sanctuary to stand trial for killing Sankara or Captain Henri Zongo and Commandant Jean-Baptiste Boukary Lingani...

Searching for a way to sum up ousted the 27-year rule of Burkinabè ex-President Blaise Compaoré as the opposition gathered on the streets in Ouagadougou last week a French political analyst settled for 'un pompier pyromane' a firefighter who is also an arsonist...

Baryoh reminded listeners of the fate of Blaise Compaoré in Burkina Faso when he tried to do the same...

In the immediate aftermath of the overthrow of President Blaise Compaoré last week no one knew who was in charge...

One of Africa's canniest operators Blaise Compaoré was forced out of power on 31 October as over 100 000 protestors in Ouagadougou and Bobo-Dioulasso demanded his exit...

Yet to the frustration of human rights and anti-corruption campaigners some of whom held demonstrations outside the State Department for the duration of the summit other long-stay leaders such as Equatorial Guinea's Teodoro Obiang Congo-Brazzaville's Denis Sassou-Nguesso Cameroon's Paul Biya Uganda's Yoweri Museveni and Burkina Faso's Blaise Compaoré were accorded full diplomatic honours and more discreetly feted by local business groups and lobbyists...