BREAKING: Blaise Compaoré, former Burkina Faso president now exiled in Côte d’Ivoire, is to be tried in a military court in Ouagadougou for killing the late great Thomas Sankara, during the 1987 coup in which he took power (BBC). 2 years after, he slaughtered his 2 co-plotters..

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