Roch Marc Christian Kabore (born 25 April 1957) was Prime Minister of Burkina Faso from 22 March 1994 to 6 February 1996 (succeeding Youssouf Ouedraogo and preceding Kadre Desire Ouedraogo) and President of Burkina Faso from 29 December 2015 to 24 January 2022 (succeeding Michel Kafando and preceding Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba).
Biography[]
Roch Marc Christian Kabore was born in Ouagadougou, Upper Volta in 1957, and he was educated in France before entering the banking industry. He was promoted to head Burkina Faso's largest bank under President Thomas Sankara, serving as General Director of the International Bank of Burkina from 1984 to 1989, and then as a special advisor to the President. Kabore went on to serve as Prime Minister from 1994 to 1996, and he resigned from the Congress for Democracy and Progress party in 2014 due to the party being run in an un-democratic and damaging manner. He founded the People's Movement for Progress as an opposition party and was elected President in 2015, succeeding interim President Michel Kafando. On 24 January 2022, he was ousted by Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba in a military coup resulting from the country's economic woes and its inability to defeat the Islamist insurgency in the Maghreb.