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Ex-Burkinabe president to face trial for predecessor's murder
Former president Compaoré to stand trial for Thomas Sankara's assassination.
The former president of Burkina Faso, Blaise Compaoré will face a military trial, accused of involvement in the assassination of his predecessor, Captain Thomas Sankara.
Also, more than forty people are killed off the coast of Djibouti, when the boat they were traveling in from Yemen capsized.
And we meet the children's author from Sierra Leone who wants to decolonise the English aphabet.
(Picture: Former president Blaise Campaore of Burkina Faso. Credit: BBC)
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