Compaoré

Issued on: 26/07/2022 - 15:46Modified: 26/07/2022 - 15:49 Burkina Faso's former president Blaise Compaoré, sentenced in absentia to life in jail for the 1987 assassination of…

The charismatic Marxist revolutionary Sankara was gunned down in the West African nation's capital Ouagadougou at the age of 37, four years after he took power in a previous putsch.Two of Compaore's former top associates, Hyacinthe Kafando…

Burkina Faso's former president Blaise Compaoré was sentenced in absentia to life in jail over his role in the 1987 murder of the country's revolutionary folk hero Thomas Sankara, a military court ruled on Wednesday,…