{"id":22577,"date":"2022-04-07T12:09:30","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T10:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2022\/04\/07\/burkina-fasos-ex-president-compaore-handed-life-sentence-over-sankara-murder\/"},"modified":"2022-04-07T12:09:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T10:09:30","slug":"burkina-fasos-ex-president-compaore-handed-life-sentence-over-sankara-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2022\/04\/07\/burkina-fasos-ex-president-compaore-handed-life-sentence-over-sankara-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Burkina Faso&rsquo;s ex-president Compaor\u00e9\u00a0handed life sentence over Sankara murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Former Burkinab\u00e9 president Blaise Compaor\u00e9 has been sentenced in absentia to life in prison for his role in the 1987 murder of his predecessor Thomas Sankara. There were gasps as the military court delivered the verdict, 35 years after the assassination of the man sometimes known as Africa&rsquo;s Che Guevara.\u00a0Compaor\u00e9\u00a0will likely never serve time. He is currently in exile in Ivory Coast after being toppled in a 2014 uprising. The bitterness many\u00a0Burkinab\u00e9s feel about his role in Sankara&rsquo;s\u00a0death is in part fuelled by his betrayal of a man who was once his close friend.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Burkinab\u00e9 president Blaise Compaor\u00e9 has been sentenced in absentia to life in prison for his role in the 1987 murder of his predecessor Thomas Sankara. There were gasps as the military court delivered the verdict, 35 years after the assassination of the man sometimes known as Africa&rsquo;s Che Guevara.\u00a0Compaor\u00e9\u00a0will likely never serve time. He &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-22577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}