Ex-Burkinabé President Blaise Compaoré, who overthrew and assassinated Thomas Sankara in a coup, sentenced to life in prison over his involvement in said coup

Burkina Faso's ex-president Compaore handed life sentence in absentia over Sankara murder

Burkina Faso's former president Blaise Compaore was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for complicity in the 1987 murder of his predecessor Thomas Sankara in a coup, a military tribunal ruled ...