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Ivory Coast Grants Citizenship to Former Burkina Faso President

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Ivory Coast said Wednesday that it had granted citizenship to Burkina Faso's former president, Blaise Compaore, potentially dashing hopes he could be extradited to his neighboring native country for his role in a high-profile murder case. Burkina Faso issued an arrest warrant against Compaore in December for the murder of Thomas Sankara, a former president and military leader who was assassinated 30 years ago in a case that has famously gone unsolved. The body of Sankara, sometimes...

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