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Burkina Faso: Compaoré Grooming Brother to Rule?
ThinkAfricaPress, 30 August 2012
On October 15, President Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso will celebrate his 25th year in power. Read more »
Burkina Faso: Compaoré Grooming Brother to Rule?
There are some indications that President Blaise Compaoré has accepted that his time as the official head of state of Burkina Faso is coming to an end and is therefore beginning to organize his succession with his brother taking an increasingly public role in politics, writes Peter Peter Dörrie, a freelance journalist in Ouagadougou.
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Burkina Faso: Compaoré Holds Onto Power
African Arguments, 9 August 2012
One of the remarkable facts of history that re-emerged during the trial of Charles Taylor was the key role that Burkinabé President Blaise Compaoré played in the… Read more »
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Burkina Faso: Fragile Calm Prevails One Year After Protests
UNIRIN, 12 March 2012
One year on from the start of several months of popular revolts in Burkina Faso, the situation has settled down, but the calm is fragile, say observers. Read more »
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Burkina Faso: PM Vows 'Merciless' Crackdown On Corruption
RNW Africa, 5 January 2012
Burkina Faso's Prime Minister Luc Adolphe Tiao vowed on Thursday to be "merciless" in cases of corruption such as that of the head of the customs service arrested at the weekend. Read more »
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Africa: Sankara Lives On
Foroyaa, 23 October 2011
If the bullets that cut down his life were meant to silence him and to undermine his admiring legacy, then they failed miserably. Twenty fours after his cowardly assassination by… Read more »
