Zéphirin Diabré

Minority manThe other frontrunner is Zéphirin Diabré a former minister under Compaoré and a former employee of both the United Nations and the French uranium-mining company Areva (AC Vol 56 No 1 Watching the dust settle)...

Zéphirin Diabré leader of the Union pour le progrès et le changement (UPC) is likely to play an important role in any future political configuration (AC Vol 51 No 24 Modesty Blaise)...

It then emerged that Zida was in dialogue with the opposition led by Zéphirin Diabré of the Union pour le progrès et le changement religious and traditional leaders including the Mogho Naba King of the main ethnic group the Mossi and foreign diplomats (AC Vol 51 No 24)...

Meanwhile opposition party leaders (mostly former allies of Compaoré) such as Zéphirin Diabré and Kaboré joined the protestors on the streets...

The Union pour le progrès et le changement (UPC) a popular opposition party led by former Finance Minister and ex-Areva employee Zephirin Diabré is heavily set against Compaoré's bid to stay in power...

The recently formed Union pour le progrès et le changement of ex-Finance Minister Zéphirin Diabré has only 19 seats not enough to block the change...

The UPC is led by Zéphirin Diabré formerly a Finance Minister a CDP member and an employee of the French nuclear group Areva...

Two of the more substantial members of the opposition opted to sit out this contest: Zéphirin Diabré the former Africa and Middle East Director of the French nuclear power group Areva who belongs to the recently launched Union pour le progrès et le changement (UPC) and Hermann Yaméogo who is from the Union nationale pour la démocratie et le développement – which therefore had no candidate...

An outsider is Zéphirin Diabré Chairman of the Middle East and Africa Regions for the French nuclear giant Areva and International Affairs Advisor to its President Anne Lauvergeon...