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Former Burkina Faso's president Compaore sentenced to life in prison over Sankara murder

Former Burkina Faso president, Blaise Compaore, in New York September 26, 2013. [Reuters]

Burkina Faso's former president Blaise Compaore was sentenced to life imprisonment for complicity in the 1987 murder of his predecessor Thomas Sankara, a military tribunal ruled on Wednesday.

The charismatic Marxist revolutionary was infamously gunned down in the West African nation's capital Ouagadougou at the age of 37, four years after he took power in a previous putsch.

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