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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...

Who is Hon Warui George Kiguru, the Kariara Ward MCA Seat Candidate?

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Hon George Warui Kiguru has thrown his hat into the ring and is now 2022 candidate for MCA seat in Kariara Ward, Murang'a County.

From behind left: Hon George Warui Kiguru with his wife, Mumbi Warui, and their twin sons and daughter.

George Warui Kiguru is a family man married to a beautiful wife with whom they've got three lovely school-going kids, a career accountant with a strong background in banking and insurance industries, and a philanthropist engaged in various community activities within Kariara Ward.

Warui was born fifth - in the family of George Kiguru Thuo of 'Mbari ya Thuo' belonging to the Agaciku Clan - at Mbugiti Location in Kariara Ward where he grew up and attended school. 

He went to the neighbouring Mbugiti Primary School, then Thika High School and finally Mbugiti High School, before proceeding to KCA University where he studied accounting.

In 2017, Warui's life would, however, take what he has termed as a 'major turning point' following the sudden and saddening demise of...

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