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How CIA, French Intelligence Agency Conspired to Assassinate Thomas Sankara

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On April 6, 2022, Burkina Faso’s ex-President Blaise Compaorรฉ was tried, convicted and sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for murder. It  took 35 years for justice to catch up with him for murdering his revolutionary socialist predecessor, Thomas Sankara (the “Che Guevara of Africa”), in a 1987 right-wing military coup.  How  long will justice take to catch up with the CIA and its French intelligence counterpart, the Direction gรฉnรฉrale de la sรฉcuritรฉ extรฉrieure (DGSE), for what appears to have been their part in masterminding or enabling the plot that overthrew and killed Sankara? As young military officers in Burkina Faso during the 1970s and 1980s, Thomas Sankara and Blaise Compaorรฉ were the best of friends. The two traveled the country playing in a musical band together and Sankara’s parents adopted Compaorรฉ as his parents had died when he was young. In 1983, Sankara and Compaorรฉ launched a coup against Burkina Faso’s military regime by Jean-Baptiste Ouรฉdraog...

Just in: COVID-19 Allegedly Kills Senior ODM Leader

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Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho and Nominated MCA Mohammed Hatimy. [Source/The Star]

Vocal member of Mombasa County Assembly, Mohammed Hatimy, is dead.

The outspoken MCA allegedly succumbed to Covid-19 related complications on Saturday morning, Mombasa County Assembly Speaker Ibrahim Khatri reported.

“He passed on at 3am. He was suffering from lung infection,” Khatri told Capital News, adding Hatimy had been at Mombasa Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for some days.

The deceased was among 7 MCAs who tested positive for Coronavirus late last month leading to the temporary closure of the assembly.

Hatimy was serving as nominated MCA for a second term courtesy of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party. In the assembly, he was the Finance Committee chair.

He was also the Mombasa County chairman of ODM, the party which is led by former Prime Minister Raila Odinga.

In its official Twitter account, the Orange party expressed its regrets over Hatimy's death and described him as a beautiful soul, great man and a good leader. 

"A beautiful soul has stopped beating. A great man has fallen. The ODM family has lost a good man and leader. Hon. Mohamed Hatimy, our Mombasa County Chairman and a second term nominated MCA in the County Assembly of Mombasa is dead. We shall miss you kiongozi," read the post.

The deceased wife, Dr. Khadija Shikelly, is the Mombasa County Medical Services Chief Officer.

Hatimy was a close ally and advisor of Mombasa Governor Ali Hassan Joho. Before venturing into politics he served as the chairman of the defunct Kenya Football Federation (KFF).

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