Bajekal was executive editor and international editor at TIME. Anti-government protesters gather in the Place de la Nation in Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso, Oct. 31, 2014. Bajekal was executive ...

Exile is to be tried in absentia alongside 13 others for complicity in murder The exiled former president of Burkina Faso, Blaise Compaoré, is to be tried in absentia for the murder of Thomas Sankara, ...

Compaoré has ruled the country for more than 20 years, after coming to power in the country's fifth military coup since independence. Although he has allowed multiparty politics, he faces little ...

34 years after the events, a military court in Burkina Faso’s capital has indicted 14 people. Among them are former president Blaise Compaoré and his former chief of staff, General Gilbert Diendéré, ...

Burkina Faso's former president Blaise Compaoré, sentenced in absentia to life in jail for the 1987 assassination of revolutionary icon Thomas Sankara, has apologised to the ex-leader's family. "I ask ...

MOST countries must wait a generation or more to see a popular revolution against a democratically elected leader, a coup d’état by uniformed officers or a power struggle within a military junta.

Blaise Compaoré sentenced to life imprisonment at military tribunal over role in 1987 killing of Thomas Sankara Burkina Faso’s former president Blaise Compaoré has been sentenced to life imprisonment ...

Nearly seven years after his fall, Compaoré’s shadow continues to hang over Burkinabe politics. His influential party, the Congrès pour la Démocratie et le Progrès (CDP), returned to the forefront of ...

The vote on the controversial bill to change the Burkina Faso constitution to allow President Blaise Compaoré to run for a third term was scheduled for yesterday, 30 October, but ended up not taking ...