Burkina presidential candidate Kaboré casts vote Burkina Faso's presidential candidate Roch Marc Christian Kaboré cast his vote in Sunday's election, as five million voters in the nation of 20 million went to the polls to choose a new leader for the first time in almost three decades. Voters are hoping to turn the page on a year of turmoil during which the west African nation's people ousted a veteran ruler and repelled a military coup. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES.