FILE PHOTO: President of Burkina Faso, Blaise Compaore at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - A Burkina Faso court charged former President Blaise Compaore in absentia on ...

Former Burkinabe minister Yolande Viviane Compaoré has been assassinated at her home in Ouagadougou, the capital’s public ...

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OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) -Burkina Faso's former president Blaise Compaore was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for complicity in the 1987 murder of his predecessor Thomas Sankara in a coup, a ...

The trial for the alleged killers of Thomas Sankara began on 11 October, in front of a military tribunal in Ouagadougou. But although Blaise Compaoré, Gilbert Diendéré and Hyacinthe Kafando stand ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Former Burkinabe President Blaise Compaore’s sentence of life imprisonment by an ...

A military tribunal sentenced former President Blaise Compaoré, who is now in exile, to life in prison for his role in the 1987 assassination. By Declan Walsh Thirty-five years after the killing of ...