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, ...
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina FasoOUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — A military court in Burkina Faso on Monday started the trial of 14 people including former President Blaise Compaore for the killing of influential ...
Oct. 11 (UPI) --The trial started Monday over the assassination of Burkina Faso's revered revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara 34 years ago. Fourteen men will go to trial, accused of complicity in ...
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso – Burkina Faso's interim government has authorized the exhumation of the supposed grave of assassinated revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara. The family long has doubted that ...
Boys stand next to the grave of former president Thomas Sankara in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, November 25, 2014. REUTERS/Joe Penney By Nadoun Coulibaly OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Authorities in Burkina ...
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Burkina Faso's revolutionary leader, Thomas Sankara, was reburied Thursday, eight years after his body was exhumed as part of an investigation. Sankara's body, and ...
Freed from their left-wing and Marxist jargon, Sankara’s economic ideas can be seen to foreshadow one of the most original modern development theories: the ‘capabilities’ or ‘substantial freedoms’ ...
Burkina Faso’s military junta on Thursday reburied the country’s most renowned revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara. And though the funeral, which took place in the capital Ouagadougou, was attended by ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — A military ...
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