Tag: Blaise Compaore
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Former Burkina Faso president, Compaore returns home after spending eight years in exile
Burkina Faso’s ex-president Blaise Compaore has returned to the country’s capital Ouagadougou on Thursday after spending nearly eight years in exile. Compaoré, who was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment in April by a military court in his country, he was received by the head of state as part of the national reconciliation,” a source…
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Burkina Faso’s ex-president Compaore gets life imprisonment
A military tribunal on Wednesday ruled that Burkina Faso’s former president Blaise Compaore be sentenced to life imprisonment for complicity in the 1987 murder of his predecessor Thomas Sankara in a coup. The charismatic Marxist revolutionary Sankara was gunned down in the West African nation’s capital Ouagadougou at the age of 37, four years after…