Ousted Burkina Faso President, Campaore faces Murder charges over Sankara’s death

34 years after the death of Thomas Sankara, former Military Head of State of Burkina Faso, a Military Tribunal on Tuesday charged former President Blaise Compaore in absentia in connection with the 1987 murder 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 … Continue reading Ousted Burkina Faso President, Campaore faces Murder charges over Sankara’s death