Former Burkinabe minister Yolande Viviane Compaoré has been assassinated at her home in Ouagadougou, the capital’s public ...

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OUAGADOUGOU, July 6 (Reuters) - Former Burkina Faso president Blaise Compaore will return from exile for the first time since being ousted in a 2014 uprising, Burkinabe authorities said on Wednesday, ...

A military tribunal sentenced former President Blaise Compaoré, who is now in exile, to life in prison for his role in the 1987 assassination. By Declan Walsh Thirty-five years after the killing of ...

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) -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 ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Former Burkinabe President Blaise Compaore’s sentence of life imprisonment by an ...

OUAGADOUGOU, July 8 (Reuters) - Most of the Burkina Faso ex-presidents invited to a reconciliation summit organised on Friday by the country's military ruler did not attend amid public outrage over ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Burkina Faso’s former President Blaise Compaore returned to the West African country Thursday, the first time since being ousted in a popular uprising eight years ago.

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Burkina Faso's former President Blaise Compaore returned to the West African country Thursday, the first time since being ousted in a popular uprising eight years ago.