Burkinabé Socialist Bloc (in
French: ''Bloc Socialiste Burkinabé'') was a
Sankarist political party
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in
Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso (, ; , ff, 𞤄𞤵𞤪𞤳𞤭𞤲𞤢 𞤊𞤢𞤧𞤮, italic=no) is a landlocked country in West Africa with an area of , bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to ...
. BSB was founded in December 1990 by
Nongma Ernest Ouédraogo. Ouédraogo became the general secretary of BSB. Ouédraogo had been released from jail the previous year. He had served as Minister of Security under Sankara.
The slogan of BSB was ''Action et Victoire et Bloc''.
In August 1995 Ouédraogo was jailed following a libel suit. He was released five months later.
In January 1996 a faction split and joined the
Congress for Democracy and Progress
The Congress for Democracy and Progress (french: Congrès pour la Démocratie et le Progrès, ''CDP'') was the ruling party in Burkina Faso from 1996 until the overthrow of Blaise Compaoré in 2014.
History
The party was founded in February 199 ...
.
In 2000 BSB merged into the
Sankarist Pan-African Convention (CPS).
Defunct political parties in Burkina Faso
Sankarist political parties in Burkina Faso
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