OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) -Burkina Faso's former president Blaise Compaore was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for complicity in the 1987 murder of his predecessor Thomas Sankara in a coup, a ...

Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaoré speaks to the media after a meeting with France's President François Hollande at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Sept. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File) ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Burkina Faso’s former President Blaise Compaore returned to the West African country Thursday, the first time since being ousted in a popular uprising eight years ago.

Campaore, pictured during a visit to Washington in 2014, is being tried in absentia for the assassination of his predecessor, Thomas Sankara - Copyright AFP/File ALEX ...

A military tribunal sentenced former President Blaise Compaoré, who is now in exile, to life in prison for his role in the 1987 assassination. By Declan Walsh Thirty-five years after the killing of ...

Burkina Faso's longtime president Blaise Compaore, toppled by a popular uprising last month, has left his temporary refuge of Ivory Coast and headed into exile in Morocco, an Ivorian government ...