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A criminal court in Guinea sentences former president and military leader Moussa Dadis Camara to 20 years in prison for crimes against humanity while suppressing an opposition rally in Conakry in 2009.
2024-08-1

Former Guinean military leader Moussa Dadis Camara and ten others go on trial for their alleged involvement in a massacre of anti-government demonstrators in 2009.
2022-09-28

The trial for the 1987 assassination of former leader of Burkina Faso Thomas Sankara, known as the "African Che Guevara", begins in Ouagadougou against 14 people, including former president Blaise Compaoré, who will be tried "in absentia".
2021-10-11

Blaise Compaoré resigns as President of Burkina Faso following the 2014 Burkinabé uprising. General Honoré Traoré assumes leadership on a transitional basis.
2014-10-31

Blaise Compaore, President of Burkina Faso, who took power in a coup 24 years ago, reportedly flees a mutiny of his military bodyguards.
2011-04-15

Blaise Compaoré is re-elected as President of Burkina Faso following a presidential election with 81% of the vote.
2010-11-24

The Guinean junta appoints opposition leader Jean-Marie Doré as the new prime minister.
2010-01-19

Guinea's junta chief Moussa Dadis Camara arrives in Burkina Faso after being hospitalised in Morocco.
2010-01-13

Sékouba Konaté, the interim head of the junta in Guinea, is flown to Senegal after falling ill.
2010-01-8

Guinea's interim leader, General Sékouba Konaté, proposes a unity government led by a Prime Minister from the opposition. [http:--www.guardian.co.uk-world-2010-jan-07-guinea-unity-government-camara-shooting ("The Guardian")] [http:--www.apanews.net-apa.php?page=show_article_eng&id_article=115089 (African Press Agency)]date=August 2019
2010-01-7