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Burkinabé politician

Ablassé Ouédraogo (born 30 June 1953 in Dabaré) is a Burkinabé economist, diplomat and politician. Ouédraogo served as Minister of Foreign Affairs for Burkina Faso between 1994 and 1999.^[3][4] He is the founder of the Alternative Faso party and has served as its president since 2012,^[5][6] and was elected president of the National Union for Democracy and Development on 8 September 2018.^[7][8]

Early years and education

Ouédraogo was born in Dabaré, Pabré Department, in Burkina Faso's province of Kadiogo on 30 June 1953.^[9] Born to a farmer, he was raised in a MuslimMossi family^[10] in Moaga.^[11] He attended Cercle de Boussé for primary school then Lycée Philippe Zinda Kaboré in Ouagadougou, where he earned a Baccalauréat in Economics and Social Sciences.

He studied economics at the National University of Gabon on a scholarship from the Association