Elevating Thomas Sankara: A Tribute to a Revolutionary Hero in Burkina Faso

2023-10-04 20:34:51 Former president and father of the Burkinabè revolution Thomas Sankara, killed on October 15, 1987 during a putsch, will be elevated to the rank of “hero of the Nation”, the transitional government in Burkina Faso decided on Wednesday. A national and international ceremony will be organized on October 15. Published on: 04/10/2023 – … Read more

In Burkina Faso, former President Thomas Sankara buried at the site of his assassination

Thomas Sankarathe former president of Burkina Faso, and twelve of his companions, assassinated during a putsch on October 15, 1987, were buried, Thursday, February 23, on the places where they were killed, in Ouagadougou. Several government officials, including Prime Minister Apollinaire Joachimson Kyélem de Tambela, appeared alongside the hundred or so family members who came … Read more

former President Compaoré apologizes to the Sankara family

Published on : 26/07/2022 – 16:01 A delegation from the Ivorian government was received on Tuesday, July 26 in the morning, in Ouagadougou by the president of the Burkinabè transition. An Ivorian delegation carrying a letter from Blaise Compaoré. If we are to believe the Burkinabè government, in this letter, there is talk of an … Read more

Blaise Compaoré back in Ivory Coast after his brief stay in Burkina Faso

Published on : 09/07/2022 – 23:26 Former President Blaise Compaoré left Ouagadougou on Saturday July 9 in the afternoon for Abidjan. Arrived last Thursday, he took part in a consultation with former President Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo and Lieutenant-Colonel Paul Henri Damiba. Blaise Compaoré took this opportunity to meet with several personalities in the Burkinabè capital. With … Read more

several major absentees at the meeting of former heads of state

Published on : 08/07/2022 – 22:43 It was to be a historic moment. Friday, July 8, the president of the Burkinabè transition, Lieutenant-Colonel Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba, invited five former Burkinabè heads of state to the presidential palace of Kossyam. The objective of this meeting: to launch national reconciliation to confront terrorism. For the occasion, … Read more

Meeting of former Burkinabè presidents, Damiba calls for cohesion alongside Compaoré

Published on : 08/07/2022 – 23:20 They were only 2 of the 5 former presidents of Burkina Faso invited to a meeting by Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, president of the transition. The only elected president, overthrown by the putschists, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré did not made at the invitation of the head of the junta. Also … Read more

the question of justice hangs over the return of Blaise Compaoré

Published on : 07/07/2022 – 22:41 Blaise Compaoré arrived in Ouagadougou on Thursday July 7 in the early afternoon on a private flight chartered by the Ivorian authorities. A return made possible by the junta in power, officially, for talks with the president of the transition, Lieutenant-Colonel Damiba, and the former presidents of the country. … Read more