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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...

William Ruto's Closest Ally in Mourning After Losing his Mother

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Photo: Deputy president William Ruto with Bahati MP Kimani Ngunjiri (Source/Kimani Ngunjiri/Facebook).

The book of Ecclesiastes 3:2 will live to remind us that there is time to be born and a time to die. When one is born, happiness and celebrations reign but that is not the case when curtains fall.

Bahati Member of Parliament (MP) Kimani Ngunjiri is presently mourning after losing his mother. According to the post he made on his official Facebook page, her mother passed today at around nine o'clock in the morning aged 103.

The vocal legislator has eulogized her mother as a strong pillar in their family who showered them with a motherly love and  whose virtuous teachings will remain emblemed in their hearts and lives.

Kimani is a staunch supporter of William Ruto's presidential course and he is among those who are pulling all strings to catapult the DP to echelons of power.

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