The remains of Burkina Faso’s former revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara were buried Thursday at the site where he was assassinated in a coup more than three decades ago. Sankara was buried along with ...
I come here from a country whose seven million children, women, and men refuse to die from ignorance, hunger, and thirst any longer. My aspiration is to speak on behalf of my people, on behalf of the ...
Blaise Compaoré, the exiled former president of Burkina Faso, is to be tried in absentia for the 1987 murder of Thomas Sankara. Sankara, who was not one of those African leaders to be told what to do ...
A massacre led by Blaise Compaoré, an ally of France, put an end to the 1983 revolution, which today inspires struggles in the Sahel Exactly 38 years ago, Burkina Faso lost its revolutionary leader ...
Burkina Faso President Thomas Sankara in 1986. (Alain Nogues / Sygma / Sygma via Getty Images) Reporting for this story was supported by the Fund for Investigative Journalism. On October 26 and 27 in ...
OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Burkina Faso's new transitional president has promised to open an investigation to identify remains believed to be those of the West African nation's murdered revolutionary ...
Blaise Compaoré, the exiled former president of Burkina Faso, is to be tried in absentia for the 1987 murder of Thomas Sankara. Sankara, who was not one of those African leaders to be told what to do ...
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