AP | The late Burkina Faso revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara was reburied Thursday, 8 years after his body was exhumed as part of an investigation. Sankara’s...
Reuters | – Burkina Faso’s former president, Blaise Compaore, has apologized to the family of his late predecessor, Thomas Sankara, whose 1987 murder a military court...
AFP | Former Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaoré has been jailed for life for his role in the assassination of revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara 35 years...
AFP | Prosecutors on Tuesday called for a 30-year jail term against Burkina Faso’s former president Blaise Compaore for the 1987 murder of his predecessor, revolutionary...
Compaoré is charged with complicity, undermining state security and concealing corpses
Burkina Faso held presidential and legislative elections on Sunday, the first since protests last year toppled the West African nation’s longtime leader and started a turbulent...
Authorities in Burkina Faso have named former foreign minister Michel Kafando as transitional president. Kafando will head the country until 2015. He was selected after several...
African leaders gave immediate former French president Jacques Chirac (pictured) and his prime minister Dominique de Villepin briefcases full of cash, notably to finance election campaigns,...
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Hundreds of students in Burkina Faso crowded into a courtroom to watch a trial over a student’s death that sparked months of...
