2023-10-13 20:20:31 Published on : 13/10/2023 – 22:20 In the north of Mali, several localities are emptying of their population. The inhabitants of Kidal, a town in the hands of the rebels, demonstrated to call on the international community and the UN mission to ensure their protection. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, eight peacekeepers … Read more
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
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
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
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
Published on : 25/04/2022 – 20:02 In Burkina Faso, the trial hearing on the interests of the civil parties in the case of Thomas Sankara and his twelve companions opened on Monday, April 25, at the Ouagadougou military court. As damages, the Sankara family is asking for a symbolic franc, as are the Burkinabe lawyers … Read more
Published on : 07/04/2022 – 07:47 Sentenced to life imprisonment by the Ouagadougou military court for his role in the assassination of Thomas Sankara 34 years ago, Blaise Compaoré has been exiled in Côte d’Ivoire for several years. He has never rested a foot in Burkina Faso since, even if his return was the subject … Read more
Published on : 06/04/2022 – 21:35 The former head of state of Burkina Faso Blaise Compaoré, one of the main accused in the assassination of ex-president Thomas Sankara, was sentenced on Wednesday to life imprisonment by the military court of Ouagadougou. Relive our special edition. The former president of Burkina Faso Blaise Compaoré was sentenced … Read more