Burkina Faso marks 39 years since Sankara’s assassination
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on OuestafOur method
Burkina Faso commemorated the 39th anniversary of the assassination of Thomas Sankara and 12 companions in Ouagadougou on 15 October 2026. Prime Minister Jean Emmanuel Ouédraogo read a message from President Ibrahim Traoré, calling for unity and denouncing internal divisions, according to Ouestaf.
Burkinabè commemorated the 39th anniversary of the assassination of Thomas Sankara, former president and a leading figure in the August 1983 revolution in Burkina Faso, in Ouagadougou on 15 October 2026. The ceremony was held at the Thomas Sankara Memorial, Ouestaf reports.
Prime Minister Jean Emmanuel Ouédraogo read a message from President Ibrahim Traoré, who said that “an idea does not die under the assassin’s bullets of adversity; it dies only when people stop defending it”. He also said the imperialists had “made a serious mistake” on 15 October 1987. Ibrahim Traoré reaffirms Thomas Sankara’s political legacy in Burkina Faso.
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