The World - News from Aug. 14, 1985
Capt. Thomas Sankara, the leftist leader of the West African nation of Burkina Faso, dissolved his government and sent most Cabinet ministers to work on collective farms. A presidential decree said only that three will be allowed to remain in Ouagadougou, the capital of the country formerly known as Upper Volta, as political coordinators. Ouagadougou sources said the move may be part of a drive by Sankara, an admirer of Libya’s Moammar Kadafi, against “petty bourgeois tendencies” in the revolutionary leadership.
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