A trial for an assassination 34 years ago in Burkina Faso

Host Marco Werman speaks with former Ouagadougou correspondent Joan Baxter who is following the trial of ex-president Blaise Compaore who is accused of engineering the coup d’état against his comrade-in-arms, Thomas Sankara, on Oct. 15, 1987. Additional reporting from the courtroom comes from Ouoba Boukari, with the independent newspaper Mutations, and we check in with him on the trial thus far. 

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