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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...

Popular Western MP Succumbs to Covid-19

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The late Matungu MP Justus Makokha. (Photo/ Parliament)

 Matungu Member of Parliament Justus Makokha Murunga is dead. Makokha has been the MP for Matungu Constituency in Kakamega County for the past three years elected on an Amani National Congress Party ticket.

  According to relatives, Murunga succumbed to Covid-19 on Saturday evening while undergoing medical treatment at St. Mary's Hospital in Mumias. Before his death, Murunga was showing symptoms related to Covid-19 such as shortness of breath and general body weakness before rushed to the medical facility in the subcounty.

 Medical reports indicate that the late MP had underlying conditions of Diabetes.

Murunga will be remembered for being in the forefront championing for development in his constituency.

 He came into limelight last year when he was grilled by the DCI over mass killings in his constituency famously known as the Matungu Killings.


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