Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso, Second Military Coup 2022

5 October 2022 - by Amy Goodman, Aziz Fall, Corinne Dufka

For the second time, this year, a military coup has occured in Burkina Faso. A group of army officers, lead by Captain Ibrahim Traoré, siezed power friday, ousting Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba who had lead the country since a January coup. (...)
Press release: Blaise Compaoré must be arrested if he returns to Burkina

7 July 2022 - by Réseau International « Justice pour Sankara justice pour l’Afrique »

https://www.thomassankara.net/communique-de-presse-blaise-compaore-etre-arrete-sil-rentre-burkina/?lang=en The information reached us during the night of 5 to 6 July. Blaise Compaoré is said to be about to visit Burkina Faso in order to engage (...)
The financialisation of malaria in Africa: Burkina Faso

9 June 2022 - by African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB)

The financialisation of malaria in Africa: Burkina Faso, rogue capital & GM /gene drive mosquitoes This paper seeks to understand the financialisation of malaria as a vehicle for rogue capital in a context of a weakened state (through (...)
Conclusion of Sankara and Companions Case : A Salutary Trial. But the demands for truth continue

9 April 2022 - by Réseau International « Justice pour Sankara justice pour l’Afrique »

A historic trial has been concluded. It is with great satisfaction that we learn of the life sentences given to Blaise Compaoré, Gilbert Diendéré and Hyancinthe Kafando. Such an outcome was never sure. But if the essence of the national conspiracy (...)
International Appeal for the Trial Relating to the Assassination of Thomas Sankara and his Fellow Victims be Filmed

19 October 2021 - by Réseau International « Justice pour Sankara justice pour l’Afrique »

Keep the memory of the trial for posterity After a long wait of 34 years, by National, African and International opinion, the trial relating to the assassination of Thomas Sankara and his fellow victims has finally opened on 11 October 2021 (...)
The Thomas Sankara and his fellow victims affair. Finally a beginning of justice being done! But the inquiry must launch into the international aspects!

11 October 2021 - by Réseau International « Justice pour Sankara justice pour l’Afrique »

Press release After over thirty years of struggle and patience, the trial of the assassins of Thomas Sankara and his fellow victims will open on 11 October in Ouagadougou. For The International Justice Network for Thomas Sankara and his (...)
The opening of the trial for the assassination of Thomas and his companions is a victory for justice, but will the whole truth be known?

23 August 2021 - by Réseau International « Justice pour Sankara justice pour l’Afrique »

PRESS RELEASE Finally! The Thomas Sankara assassination trial will open on 11 October 2021. After years of waiting and despairing, the families of the victims, their lawyers, the people of Burkina Faso, whose insurrection in 2014 was a (...)
Sankara case and companions. The trial quickly! ... Blaise Compaoré must be extradited and France must cooperate!

16 April 2021 - by Réseau International « Justice pour Sankara justice pour l’Afrique »

Press Release The decisions of the pre-trial hearing, published on April 13, 2021, confirm the indictment of the main defendants. The case has now been referred to the Military Tribunal for due process. We demand that Blaise Compaoré be (...)
The Sankara Affair : Press release of the Network Justice for Sankara

19 March 2021 - by Réseau International « Justice pour Sankara justice pour l’Afrique »

The French authorities must immediately make all documents concerning the assassination of Thomas Sankara available to Burkina Faso courts Press Release On 28 November 2017, on official visit to Burkina Faso, Emmanuel Macron, the French (...)
“Our stomachs will make themselves heard”: What Sankara can teach us about food justice today

10 May 2016 - by Amber Murrey

When it comes to food justice, environmentalism and ecological practices, Thomas Sankara was way ahead of his time. Thomas Sankara helped Burkina Faso become self-sufficient before in basic foodstuffs in just a few years before he was (...)
In solidarity with the people of Burkina Faso

1 December 2014 - by Collective

We – members of social movements, progressive political parties and organizations, personalities, citizens - salute the people of Burkina Faso with respect and admiration. We rejoice with the people of Burkina in the fall of Blaise Compaoré. (...)
25^th anniversary of the assassination of Thomas Sankara

15 October 2012 - by Citizen Debt Audit

Today, October 15, marks the 25th anniversary of the assassination of Thomas Sankara, who was president of Burkina Faso between 1983 and 1987. Sankara, a soldier, arrived to power through a coup, but unlike other presidents who came to power by (...)
Call for an international mobilisation against public debt to pay tribute to Thomas Sankara

In our world of crisis and to resist the various attacks against the populations through the worldwide austerity policies, time has come for the world’s peoples, South and North, to respond to Thomas Sankara’s call by presenting a united front (...)
Thomas Sankara: an African leader with a message for Europe

23 March 2012 - by Nick Dearden

On the 25th anniversary of Sankara’s assassination, Nick Dearden argues we need to remember him to challenge dominant views of Africa and fight our own debt crisis in Europe On 15 October 1987 a revolution was brought to an abrupt and bloody (...)
Club of Addis Adeba

A United Front Against the Debt

27 October 2011 - by Thomas Sankara

“Debt is also the result of confrontation. When we are told about economic crisis, nobody says that this crisis didn’t come about suddenly. The crisis had always been there but it got worse each time that popular masses become more and more (...)