Burkina Faso

Anta Guissé

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Anta Guissé: "The Sankara trial is in line with history”

1 April 2022 by Thierry Cruvellier

JUSTICE INFO IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Anta Guissé Lawyer at the Paris Bar For more than 20 years, Franco-Senegalese lawyer Anta Guissé has worked for the defence at international tribunals for Rwanda and Cambodia, as well as the Intern [...]

Burkina Faso still awaiting justice for Sankara and Zongo murders

12 December 2016 by Gaël Cogné in Ouagadougou

December 13 marks 18 years since the assassination of journalist Norbert Zongo in Burkina Faso. Civil society organizations are organizing commemorations. But the Zongo family is not alone in demanding justice. Those close to for [...]

Two years after their uprising, people of Burkina Faso want justice

8 November 2016 by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net

At the end of October 2014, mass demonstrations spread like wildfire through the towns of Burkina Faso. They were in protest at a planned change to the Constitution aimed at allowing President Blaise Compaoré to run for a fifth te [...]

Opinion

Justice vs impunity, from Burkina to Colombia

27 September 2015 by François Sergent

Whether in Colombia, Burkina Faso, Mali or the Central African Republic, transitional justice, democracy and reconciliation advanced in fits and starts. The agreement reached between FARC rebels and the Colombian president, symbol [...]

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23 September 2015 by Claude-Olivier Volluz

No amnesty for assassins, says Burkina Faso civil rights leader Rapper and activist Serge Bambara, alias Smockey, was one of the first to condemn the September 16 coup by Burkina Faso’s presidential guard (RSP). He is leader of civil society group Le Balais citoyen (“Sweep it out”) and was als [...]

21 September 2015 by AFP

Burkina Faso : timeline Here are the main developments since last week's coup in the west African country of Burkina Faso brought to power Gilbert Diendere, an aide to ousted president Blaise Compaore. Compaore was toppled in October 2014 and fled into e [...]

17 September 2015 by AFP

Burkina Faso, From Compaoré's fall to military coup Key dates in the west African state of Burkina Faso from the fall of ex-president Blaise Compaore to the power grab by the Presidential Security Regiment (RSP) on Thursday. -- 2014 -- - October 31: After a 27-year rule marked by [...]

17 September 2015 by Romaric Ollo HIEN

Burkina Faso : the end of democratic transition Burkina Faso's presidential guard declared a coup Thursday after arresting the interim president and key government figures as the country prepared for its first elections since the overthrow of longtime leader Blaise Compaore. Li [...]

11 June 2015 by Ephrem Rugiririza,JusticeInfo.Net, Arusha

“Historic Decision” of African Court on Murdered Burkina Faso Journalist Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Monday hailed as “historic” an African Court on Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR) order that Burkina Faso must reopen investigations into the 1998 murder of journalist Norbert Zongo and three of [...]