The challenge will be translating the country’s rich mineral resources and promising economy into stability and development.

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Back home Thomas Sankara, who had seized power in a coup the previous year, had embarked on a radical programme of national self-reliance. On the global stage, he sought to “anoint Burkina Faso ...