The trial of Thomas Sankara’s alleged killers resumed on 22 March, three weeks after it had been suspended and in an almost empty courtroom. The judges sat before a sparse audience, instead of the ...

Almost 37 years after the coup d’état that overthrew the former president,S Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo, at 77, is breaking his silence. A practising paediatrician (he works at the Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix ...

A member of the security force prevents people from entering the Dagnoen Cemetery, as the graves of thirteen people including Burkina Faso revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara, are exhumed on the ...

A massacre led by Blaise Compaoré, an ally of France, put an end to the 1983 revolution, which today inspires struggles in the Sahel Exactly 38 years ago, Burkina Faso lost its revolutionary leader ...