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Ex-Burkinabe president to face trial for predecessor's murder

Former president Compaor茅 to stand trial for Thomas Sankara's assassination.

The former president of Burkina Faso, Blaise Compaor茅 will face a military trial, accused of involvement in the assassination of his predecessor, Captain Thomas Sankara.

Also, more than forty people are killed off the coast of Djibouti, when the boat they were traveling in from Yemen capsized.

And we meet the children's author from Sierra Leone who wants to decolonise the English aphabet.

(Picture: Former president Blaise Campaore of Burkina Faso. Credit: 麻豆社)

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Tue 13 Apr 2021 17:06GMT
麻豆社 World Service East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa only

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