Clément Pengwendé Sawadogo is a Burkinabé

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who has served in the government of Burkina Faso as Minister of the Civil Service, Labour and Social Security since 2016. He is a member of the

People's Movement for Progress The People's Movement for Progress (, MPP) is a political party in Burkina Faso that was founded on 25 January 2014 by former Congress for Democracy and Progress member Roch Marc Christian Kaboré. Kaboré ran as the party's presidential candid ...

(MPP). Sawadogo, an adviser on economic affairs, served as Director-General of the Radio and Television of Burkina Faso and as Director of the

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of the

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. before being appointed as

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of the Government and the Council of Ministers on 5 September 2005. A few months later, he was appointed as Minister of Territorial Administration and Decentralization on 6 January 2006. In the November 2015 parliamentary election, Sawadogo was elected to the National Assembly as an MPP candidate in Kadiogo Province. After MPP leader

Roch Marc Christian Kaboré Roch Marc Christian Kaboré (; born 25 April 1957) is a Burkinabé banker and politician who served as the President of Burkina Faso from 2015 until he was deposed in 2022. He was the Prime Minister of Burkina Faso between 1994 and 1996 and Pre ...

was sworn in as President, Sawadogo was appointed to the government as Minister of the Civil Service, Labour and Social Security on 12 January 2016."Gouvernement Paul K. Thiéba I : Qui sont les nouveaux ministres"
Lefaso.net, 14 January 2016 . Sawadogo was among the hostages taken in the January 15, 2016 attacks on Ouagadougou. He was freed along with about 30 others the next day by security forces.

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