Key Defendant In Burkina’s Thomas Sankara Trial Pleads Not Guilty
LAGOS NOVEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-General Gilbert Diendere, a key defendant in a trial over the 1987 assassination of Burkina Faso’s revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara, pleaded not guilty at the landmark proceedings on Tuesday. The trial, unfolding in a military court in the capital Ouagadougou, is being avidly followed in a country where Sankara’s brutal death 34…