Burkina Faso President Thomas Sankara in 1986. (Alain Nogues / Sygma / Sygma via Getty Images) Reporting for this story was supported by the Fund for Investigative Journalism. On October 26 and 27 in ...

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 ...

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Three weeks after being suspended at the defence lawyers’ request, the trial of the alleged killers of Burkina Faso’s former president Thomas Sankara has resumed in Ouagadougou. The lawyers of the ...

A court in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, sentenced former President Blaise Campaore to life in prison for his role in the murder of his predecessor, Thomas Sankara. The verdict comes at ...

Pritzker Prize-winning architect Francis Kéré designed the memorial in Ouagadougou in tribute to Thomas Sankara, Burkina Faso's revolutionary leader. The recently opened mausoleum of the father of ...

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 ...

The trial of 14 people accused of plotting to assassinate Burkina Faso’s former president Thomas Sankara started on Monday, more than 30 years after he was gunned down in one of the most infamous ...