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 ...

Burkina Faso's former President Blaise Compaoré has received a life sentence in absentia for his role in the assassination of his charismatic predecessor, Thomas Sankara. Sankara, 37, was gunned down ...

Burkina Faso on Monday began the exhumation of a grave thought to hold the remains of its former president Thomas Sankara. In this photo, Sankara's grave is seen in Ouagadougou on Nov. 25, 2014.

The reburial of the charismatic leader has taken place 35 years after his killing Burkina Faso's most famous revolutionary Thomas Sankara has been reburied in the capital by the military junta - ...

Leader Thomas Sankara was shot at least seven times in the chest. Sankara was an army captain aged just 33 when he came to power in a coup in 1983. Authorities at the time issued a death certificate ...

Almost 37 years after the coup d’état that overthrew the former president,S Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo, at 77, is breaking his silence. A practising paediatrician (he works at the Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix ...

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 ...

When Mariam woke up, Thomas Sankara, who had finally joined her in bed, in his turn fell asleep. On her tiptoes, the president’s wife leaves the room and prepares to go to work. She has to be there at ...

CAPTAIN Thomas Sankara was a hand­some, unpretentious young man who wanted to give his country dignity and hope. He changed its name from the geographical banality of Upper Volta to Burkina Faso, ...

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