Blaise Compaoré
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title:
Blaise Compaoré
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Blaise Compaoré is a Burkinabé-Ivorian former politician who served as the second president of Burkina Faso from 1987 to 2014. He was a close associate of the first president, Thomas Sankara, during the 1980s and in October 1987 he led a coup d'état during which Sankara was killed. Subsequently, he introduced a policy of 'rectification', overturning the leftist and Third Worldist policies pursued by Sankara. He won elections in 1991, 1998, 2005, and 2010, in what were considered unfair circumsta
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President of Burkina Faso from 1987 to 2014
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Compaor%C3%A9
date created:
2003-08-05T13:12:50Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T13:26:46Z
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