Regional1987

1987 Burkinabé Coup

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Ouagadougou

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Blaise Compaoré's overthrow and killing of Thomas Sankara.

Belligerents1

Burkina Faso

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: 1987 Burkinabé Coup (1987). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/1987-burkinabe-coup · Sources & methodology