![Burkinabe protest against longtime President Blaise Compaore, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Oct. 30, 2014 (AP photo by Theo Renault).](https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/l_burkina_faso_rally_04272017_1.jpg?w=519&h=259&crop=1)
On Thursday, more than two dozen ministers from the government of former President Blaise Compaore appeared in Burkina Faso’s capital, Ouagadougou, for the opening of a trial over the events that precipitated their ouster two and a half years ago. Though Compaore’s legal team successfully obtained a one-week postponement, Burkinabe got to see their once-untouchable leadership answering to a court that could potentially hold them accountable for at least some of the crimes committed by the old regime. The case is no doubt symbolically important for a country that endured nearly three decades of Compaore’s inefficient and corrupt rule, followed […]