Burkina Faso former president Compaore to stand trial for predecessor’s murder
Compaore, who ruled Burkina Faso for 27 years, charged in absentia in assassination of Thomas Sankara
13 April 2021 - 18:10
Ouagadougou — A Burkina Faso court charged former president Blaise Compaore in absentia on Tuesday in connection with the 1987 murder of then-president Thomas Sankara, one of the most infamous killings in Africa's post-independence history.
Sankara, a charismatic Marxist revolutionary often called “Africa's Che Guevara”, was assassinated during a coup led by his former friend Compaore...
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