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After 34 years, Sankara murder trial begins in Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso President Thomas Sankara grave

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Reuters The trial of 14 people accused of plotting the assassination of Burkina Faso’s former President Thomas Sankara started on Monday, 34 years after he was gunned down in one of the most infamous killings in modern African history.  Sankara – a charismatic Marxist revolutionary widely known as “Africa’s Che Guevara” – […]