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Roch Marc Christian Kabore plays youth card for 2020

The new generation of ministers and advisors to the president will be playing a key role in the next presidential election. Analysis. [...] (386 words)

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Kaboré overhauls mining portfolio in politically calculated move

After supporting for months his controversial mining minister Oumarou Idani, the Burkinabe president Roch Marc Christian Kaboré has decided in his second term to appoint to the post one of his more high-profile party figures together with a technical expert from the sector to advise him. [...]

Burkinabè President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré.

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Re-elected Kaboré juggles loyalties to form his new government

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Burkinabe President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré was re-elected on November 22, 2020.

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Second term for Kaboré looking increasingly uncertain Free

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Security: dream team picked to calm jittery investors

To convince nervous investors, worried about the level of terrorism in Burkina Faso, that the government is taking the right [...]

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Roch Marc Christian Kabore in pre-campaign mode

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Burkina Faso president Roch Marc Christian Kabore's term will end next year. © Reuters

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BURKINA FASO Politics 13/03/2019

Climate of insecurity compromises Roch Marc Christian Kabore's chances for 2020

Roch Marc Christian Kabore is just twenty months away from running for a second term as president in November 2020. But his path to re-election is seriously hindered by the unprecedented spread of terrorism since he came to power and [. [...]

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The ghost of Salif Diallo shapes the electoral landscape of 2020

Roch Marc Christian Kabore will have to accommodate supporters of the former speaker of parliament in the run-up to the next presidential election. [...]

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The ghost of Salif Diallo hovers over the government

The death of the president of the National Assembly has altered the political dynamics of the country. Analysis. [...]

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BURKINA FASO Politics 03/05/2017

Presidents come and go but Salif Diallo remains

Although he stands in the shadow of president Roch Marc Christian Kabore, Salif Diallo, a former minister under Kabore’s predecessor, Blaise Compaore, has gained strongly in stature by taking control of most key matters facing the country since he was [. [...]

BURKINA FASO Politics 19/04/2017

Boureima Badini sees himself as national fence-mender

Justice minister under Blaise Compaore, Boureima Badini, wouldn’t be against leading the Congres pour la Democratie et le Progres (CDP) [...]

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The army is Roch Kabore’s real weakest link

The government reshuffle on 20 February illustrates the influence of a real triumvirate at the head of the executive. [...]

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Salif Diallo, a vice-president in Ouagadougou

Salif Diallo, 59, wields an influence over Burkina Faso’s political scene that goes beyond his position as speaker of parliament. [...]

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BURKINA FASO Politics 23/12/2015

Roch Kabore plans to turn page on Blaise Compaore era

Roch Marc Christian Kabore has a busy programme ahead of him after his inauguration on December 29. Not only must Burkina Faso’s new president try to put the country’s economy back on track after a year of transition chaos. [...]

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Compaore's supporters bale out

An unprecedented wave of resignations that hit the Congres for la Democratie et le Progres (CDP) party on Jan. 4 [...]

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