Roch Marc Christian Kaboré

'We are going to prioritise the need to fight against Islamic State in the Greater Sahara in the three frontiers ' Burkina Faso's President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré announced after three hours of talks at the 13 January G5 Sahel-France summit in Pau southern France...

The assembled heads of state – Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger Roch Marc Christian Kaboré of Burkina Faso (currently the G5 Executive President) Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta of Mali Idriss Déby Itno of Chad and Mohamed Cheikh el Ghazouani of Mauritania pleaded for more allies in the fight against terrorism...

In August at the French seaside resort of Biarritz President Emmanuel Macron and his Burkinabè counterpart Roch Marc Christian Kaboré who is chairing the G5 made a joint plea for more financial support...

The inability of the government to protect its citizens or even its soldiers has dented the popularity of President Roch Marc Kaboré...

Development in the Sahel will be a major theme of the G7 summit in Biarritz on 24-26 August to which Macron has invited Burkina's President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré as current chair of the G5 and other African presidents: Senegal's Macky Sall Rwanda's Paul Kagame South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa the current African Union chair Abdel Fattah el Sisi and the AU commission chief Moussa Faki Mahamat...

This could embarrass the current government including president President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré who was a pillar of the Compaoré government for 25 years...

President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré – once a prime minister under Compaoré – is a favourite to win the 2020 presidential election...

Prime Minister Paul Kaba Tieba and his government resigned en masse last month after President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré demanded a government shake-up in the wake of the violence...

The warmth of his reception outweighed those given to Rwanda's President Paul Kagame who was greeted by hundreds of Brussels's Rwandan expats – both supporters and opponents – while Niger's Mahamadou Issoufou and Burkina Faso's Roch Marc Christian Kaboré went almost unnoticed...

They may serve to warn the current government which is run by two of Blaise Compaoré's former friends – President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré and Simon Compaoré now Minister of State at the Presidency – not to take this justice business too far...