The family of former President Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings has expressed gratitude to the government and people of Burkina ...

The family of late former President Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings has expressed appreciation to the government and people of Burkina Faso for ...

Burkina Faso’s junta leader Capt. Ibrahim Traore has sparked a social media debate, with some in Africa praising him and ...

West Africa, meanwhile, has a history of young men seizing power as exemplified by John Jerry Rawlings in Ghana, Samuel Doe in Liberia and Thomas Sankara in Burkina Faso, all in the 1980s.

when there were leaders like Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah and Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia And a later era with Sankara and Ghana's Jerry Rawlings, whose coup in 1979 "was also very popular at the time".