Burkina Faso: Former president sentenced to life over Sankara murder

BBC.COM . | Wednesday April 6, 2022 13:37

 

Thomas Sankara

Compaore, who is in exile, was tried in absentia.

His former head of security, Hyacinthe Kafando, was also sentenced to life imprisonment.

Mr Sankara, a Marxist revolutionary, was gunned down by a group of armed men in the capital, Ouagadougou in 1987.

Compaore then ruled for 27 years before being ousted in 2014.