Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — The long-awaited trial on the killing of Thomas Sankara, Burkina Faso’s influential leftist ...

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’ ...

The military government in Burkina Faso announced on Saturday that the burial of the remains of the country’s former President Thomas Sankara will take place in a private ceremony next week at the ...

Fourteen suspects will go on trial for the murder of Thomas Sankara, Burkina Faso’s iconic “father of the revolution”, 34 years after his assassination. The country’s ex-president Blaise Compaoré is ...

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 ...

In Burkina Faso, a historic trial is taking shape for the death of iconic leader Thomas Sankara in 1987. But the main defendant and former president, Blaise Compaore, will be absent. Justin Sogbedji ...

Exile is to be tried in absentia alongside 13 others for complicity in murder The exiled former president of Burkina Faso, Blaise Compaoré, is to be tried in absentia for the murder of Thomas Sankara, ...

The remains of Burkina Faso’s former revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara were buried Thursday at the site where he was assassinated in a coup more than three decades ago. Sankara was buried along with ...