The government of Burkina Faso said on Friday that rescuers were battling to pump water out of a flooded mine where eight miners had been missing for over three weeks. When an underground portion of the mine flooded on April 16 due to heavy rain, the eight — six Burkinabe, a Zambian, and a Tanzanian … Read more
It’s in Burkina Faso. Blaise Compaore, the former president of Burkina Faso, was sentenced in absentia to life in prison for his role in the killing of his predecessor, Thomas Sankara, in a coup in 1987. A military tribunal ruled on Wednesday. When Sankara, a charismatic Marxist revolutionary, was 37, he was killed in the … Read more
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso – In Burkina Faso, hundreds of workers are saying good riddance to an ousted president they say let them starve, and hoping for a brighter future under the soldiers who toppled him. Niamba Azara, a woman road sweeper, was among many outside the capital Ouagadougou’s labour exchange who said they had not … Read more
