Burkina Faso har siden uafhængigheden fra Frankrig i 1960 kun været regeret af ledere, der har kuppet sig til magten.
Blaise Compaore, der i 27 år var landets præsident, måtte sidste år flygte i eksil efter voldsomme demonstrationer mod ham.
Kaboré er tidligere premierminister i det fattige Sahel-land, der har modtaget så megen bistand fra Danmark, og han var under Compaore præsident for landets nationalforsamling.
På trods af hans afstandtagen til det tidligere styre har kritikere advaret om, at Kaboré blot ville blive mere af samme skuffe.
Valget udsat af kupforsøg
The vote was due to have been held last month but was delayed by a failed coup in September led by members of the elite presidential guard, BBC online reports Monday
Mr Compaore, 64, is now living in exile in neighbouring Ivory Coast.
Mr Kabore, 58, won the elections outright. His main rival, former Economy and Finance Minister Zephirin Diabre, gained 21.6 per cent of the vote.
Mr Kabore served as chairman of the Congress for Democracy and Progress party (CDP) before leaving it in 2014, after opposing plans to extend Mr Compaore's rule.
Mr Compaore was forced from office by street protests in October 2014 over his plans to serve another five-year term.
On Sunday, foreign observers oversaw the poll.
Internetleksikonnet Wikipedia skriver om den nye præsident:
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré (born 25 April 1957) is a Burkinabé politician and newly elected president who was Prime Minister of Burkina Faso from 1994 to 1996 and President of the National Assembly of Burkina Faso from 2002 to 2012.
He also served as President of the Congress for Democracy and Progress (CDP). In January 2014, he left the ruling CDP and founded a new opposition party, the People's Movement for Progress.
Hans opvækst
Kabore was born in Ouagadougou, the capital city of Burkina Faso. He attended school from 1962 to 1968, when he received his Certificate of Primary School.
Later on he attended Le College Saint Jean Baptiste de la Salle, a selective school in Ouagadougou. He studied there from 1968 to 1975, passing his BEPC or General Certificate ('O' Level) in 1972 and his baccalaureate ('A' level) in 1975.
He went on to study economics at the University of Dijon, France majoring in business administration. There, he completed his BA in 1979 and his Master's in 1980.
Karriere i bankverdenen
Kabore worked as a banker for the International Bank of Burkina (BIB). He was eventually promoted to the head of the company.
In 1984, aged 27, he was named the General Director of the BIB, and stayed in this position for five years, directing the bank from 1984 to September 1989 before entering politics and becoming a Minister.
Den politiske karriere
He served in the government of Burkina Faso as a Minister, was a Special Adviser of the President, and has been a Deputy in the National Assembly. He became Prime Minister in 1994.
When the Congress for Democracy and Progress was formed in early February 1996, Kaboré resigned as Prime Minister and became the new ruling party's First Vice-President, as well as Special Adviser at the Presidency.
On June 6, 2002, he was elected as President of the National Assembly of Burkina Faso, succeeding Mélégué Maurice Traoré.
In the May 2007 parliamentary election, Kaboré was re-elected to the National Assembly as the first candidate on the CDP's national list.
Following the election, the National Assembly again elected Kaboré as its President. He received 90 votes, while Norbert Tiendrébéogo received 13.
Afhopningen fra CDP
Kaboré, along with a number of other prominent figures in the CDP, announced his resignation from the party on 6 January 2014.
Those who resigned said that the party was being run in an undemocratic and damaging manner, and they expressed opposition to plans to amend the constitution to eliminate term limits, which would allow President Compaoré to stand for re-election in 2015.
On 25 January 2014, a new opposition party led by Kaboré, the People's Movement for Progress (Mouvement du Peuple pour le Progrès, MPP), was founded.
At an MPP convention in July 2015, Kaboré was officially confirmed as the MPP candidate for the presidential elections, which were held on 29 November this year.
Dansk bistandsdarling
Danmark har ydet omfattende bistand til landet gennem årtier og de senere år koncentreret administrationen af megen bistand til regionen om ambassaden i Burkina Fasos hovedstad.
Skiftende danske regeringer, også den nye Venstre-regering, har holdt landet inde i Danida-varmen og udenrigsminister Kristian Jensen (V) bebudede efter kuppet, at man ikke ville indskrænke den danske bistandsindsats.
Det skyldes også en strategisk sikkerhedspolitisk satsning, der går ud på at ophjælpe det ludfattige Vestafrika.
Og dét er der god grund til. Se telegrammet
https://globalnyt.dk/content/fn-topkvinde-opridser-dommedags-scenarie-vestafrika-og-europa
