Chantal compaore biography of christopher

  • First Lady of Burkina Faso, Her Excellency Chantal Compaoré, is commending the country's efforts to protect women and girls, including ensuring that teen.
  • Compaore is married to Chantal Compaore, a close relative of Felix Houphouit-Boigny, the first president of C6te d'Ivoire and the most powerful ruler since.
  • The images of the revolt against Compaoré that reached an international audience showed a youthful popular uprising that articulated a palpable.

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    First Lady of Burkina Faso, Her Excellency Chantal Compaoré, is commending the country’s efforts to skydda women and girls, including ensuring that teen mothers return to school.

    Such measures, she said, are critical to gender and development and will ultimately ensure the country’s progress.

    Mrs. Compaoré was addressing students and staff at the Haile Selassie High School in Kingston on Wednesday, June 26, 2013, as part of her working visit to the island to learn about Jamaica’s experience in preventing adolescent pregnancies and supporting adolescent mothers.

    The First Lady praised the staff of the institution for the “exemplary work” they are doing and the support they are providing for the teenage mothers, who attend the institution.

    She informed that in her homeland, once the pregnancy is visible, the student will have to leave school.

    “The girls feel quite abandoned and it is for this reason, on the recommendation of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) that we cam

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    Burkina Faso’s People, Opposing an Autocrat, Feel Let Down by the UN

    The fast-moving people-power coup that ousted a longtime leader of the landlocked West African country of Burkina Faso took not only powerful nations and international institutions by surprise — including the United Nations, France, the United States, the African Union and African regional groups — but also the Burkina protesters themselves.

    The demonstrations started in earnest around Oct. 27, after smaller protests had been simmering for months, to force the country’s Parliament to drop a move by Blaise Compaoré, the president, to amend the Constitution so he could run for another term in 2015. Given that Compaoré had been in office for nearly a generation, 27 years, most people in his country knew no other leader in the presidential palace.

    The time had come, protestors called out last Monday in the streets of the capital, Ouagadougou, for Compaoré to go, even though it looked as if

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    The Government of Jamaica has committed to providing additional technical support to the Government of Burkina Faso, as part of efforts to share Jamaica’s experience in preventing adolescent pregnancies and supporting adolescent mothers.

    This was disclosed by Minister with Responsibility for Information, Senator the Hon. Sandrea Falconer, following a study tour of the Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation, Trafalgar Road offices in Kingston, on Tuesday, June 25, 2013.

    The study tour formed part of the activities of the Working Mission from Burkina Faso, led by the First Lady of the West African country, Her Excellency Chantal Compaoré.

    The touring party also included: Minister of Women Promotion and Gender, Nestorine Sangare; Burkina Faso’s non-resident Ambassador to Jamaica, His Excellency Daniel Ouedraogo; officials from the Office of the Prime Minister and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), which has spearheaded the initiative.

    Ms. Falconer told JIS News that the mo