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Burkina Faso remembers "Africa's Che", renew calls for justice [no comment]

Hundreds of demonstrators marched in the streets of the Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou on Sunday (October 30th), to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the assassination of former president Thomas Sankara, a charismatic Marxist revolutionary who gained a reputation as “Africa’s Che Guevara”.