More than 30 years after the assassination of the president of Burkina Faso, some of those responsible for his death have still not been punished On August 4, 1983, Marxist revolutionary Thomas ...

DAKAR, Senegal — One of the most highly anticipated trials ever to take place in Africa opened on Monday in the capital of Burkina Faso, aiming to establish who killed Thomas Sankara, the country’s ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

In what appeared to be a “cold case” after a standstill of over 30 years, a military tribunal has finally ruled in the case of Thomas Sankara, one of the youngest presidents in modern African history, ...

The renowned revolutionary and anti-imperialist leader Thomas Sankara was murdered on October 15, 1987, at the age of 37. Sankara took power in the West African state of Upper Volta after a coup in ...

Burkina Faso’s former President Blaise Compaore has been sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for complicity in the 1987 murder of his predecessor, Thomas Sankara, in a coup. The former ...

A court in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, sentenced former President Blaise Campaore to life in prison for his role in the murder of his predecessor, Thomas Sankara. The verdict comes at ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso -- A Burkina Faso military tribunal has sentenced ex-President Blaise Compaore to life imprisonment for complicity in the murder of his predecessor, Thomas Sankara, in 1987 ...