Blaise Compaoré

Also known as Blaise Compaore

President of Burkina Faso from 1987 to 2014

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Blaise Compaoré is a male politician and statesperson born in Ouagadougou on February 3, 1951. He held the position of President of Burkina Faso and was a member of the Congress for Democracy and Progress and the Organization for Popular Democracy – Labour Movement. Compaoré was a candidate in the 1998, 2005, and 2010 Burkinabé presidential elections. His citizenship has included the Republic of Upper Volta, Burkina Faso, and Ivory Coast. He is a Catholic who speaks Mooré and French.

Compaoré served as a captain in the military and participated in the First Liberian Civil War. He was convicted of murder. Among his awards are the National Order of Burkina Faso and the National Order of Merit. He is a member of the Académie des sciences d'outre-mer. His spouse is Chantal Compaoré.

As an author, Compaoré has published works including *An anthology of speeches by the President of Burkina Faso, incumbent chairman of the OAU*, *Le progrès continu pour une société d'espérance*, *Les Forces armées populaires dans la R.D.P*, *Les voies de l'espérance*, and *Programme de large rassemblement pour le développement de la démocratie*.

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Person · Open Library

Works: 7

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An anthology of speeches by the President of Burkina Faso, incumbent chairman of the OAU
Discours du président Blaise Compaoré à l'occasion de son élévation au grade de docteur honoris causa par l'Ecole des hautes études internationales de Paris
Le progrès continu pour une société d'espérance
Les Forces armées populaires dans la R.D.P
Les voies de l'espérance

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Randomized Assessment of Rapid Endovascular Treatment of Ischemic Stroke
· 2015 · cited 5,422x
Thrombectomy 6 to 24 Hours after Stroke with a Mismatch between Deficit and Infarct
· 2018 · cited 5,046x
Stent-Retriever Thrombectomy after Intravenous t-PA vs. t-PA Alone in Stroke
· 2015 · cited 4,680x
Large language models encode clinical knowledge
· 2023 · cited 3,355x
The Self-Efficacy Scale: Construction and Validation
· 1982 · cited 2,714x

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Encyclopedic overview

Blaise Compaoré ( French: [blɛz kɔ̃paɔʁe]; born 3 February 1951) is a Burkinabé politician and former military officer who served as the second president of Burkina Faso from 1987 until his government was overthrown in 2014. The longest-serving president in Burkinabé history, Compaoré previously served as the Minister of Justice from 1985 to 1987.

Born and raised in Ziniaré, Compaoré joined the Burkina Faso Armed Forces (then known as Upper Voltan Armed Forces) at the age of 20 in 1971 where he rose through the ranks. Compaoré was a close associate of his predecessor and the country's first President, Thomas Sankara, who appointed Compaoré as Minister of Justice in 1985. The pair were seen as close allies until Compaoré led a coup d'état during which Sankara was killed two years later in 1987. Aged 36 when assuming office, Compaoré was the third youngest Burkinabé president, after Ibrahim Traoré and Sankara.

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