Sankara’

General Gilbert Diendere, a key defendant in a trial over the 1987 assassination of Burkina Faso's revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara, has  pleaded not guilty at the landmark proceedings. The trial, unfolding in a military court in the…

The trial of 14 men including Burkina Faso's former president, accused in the assassination of left-wing leader Thomas Sankara 34 years ago, resumed at a military court in Ouagadougou. The slaying of Sankara, a Pan-Africanist icon, has…