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Thomas Sankara murder trial

10 February 2022

Burkina Faso organized the trial of the men who assassinated Thomas Sankara (photo), on 15 October 1987.
Sankara was an iconic African revolutionary, often compared to Che Guevara. He was anti-imperialist, socialist, pan-Africanist and Third-Worldist. He vehemently criticized the African (...)

Burkina-Faso: a coup d’état within a revolution

6 November 2014

After 27 years in power in Burkina Faso, President Blaise Compaoré was suddenly ousted by a popular uprising on 30 October 2014. Having kept himself in power since the riots of 2011 through brutal repression, he swiftly resigned and fled to Côte d’Ivoire.
Compaoré had announced his intention to (...)