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Life imprisonment slammed on former Burkina Faso strongman, Blaise Compaore

A military tribunal in Ouagadougou, capital city of Burkina Faso in West Africa has today Wednesday 6th April, 2022, given a life sentence to Blaise Compaore.

The former president of Burkina Faso was sentenced in absentia.

This is the outcome of a court case opened against him and some of his top and close associates last October 2021.

The case was opened against 14 officials including the former president, 3 of the accused have been acquitted while others have been handed prison terms ranging from 3 to 20 years.

He is charged for attacking state security and complicity in the assassination of his predecessor Thomas Sankara in 1987.

The former president is currently in exile in the Ivory Coast.

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