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    Burkina Faso, officially the People's Republic of Burkina Faso, is a landlocked country in West Africa, bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the...
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    Football is the most popular sport in Burkina Faso. And the national association can look back on recent developments with a great deal of pride. Reaching...
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  • Yankasso is a village in the Safané Department of Mouhoun province of Burkina Faso. It was the site of a serious defeat of the French colonial forces in...
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    has a special interest in Burkina Faso. Between 1997 and 2005, she regularly conducted fieldwork in Southern Burkina Faso, exploring topics including...
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    from the tripoint with Burkina Faso in the west to the tripoint with Algeria in the east. Beginning at the tripoint with Burkina Faso, the border proceeds...
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    Burkinabe nationality law is regulated by the Constitution of Burkina Faso, as amended; the Persons and Family Code (French: Code des personnes et de la...
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  • Toubé Clément Dakio (category 1939 births)
    (born 1939) is a Burkinabé politician and President of the Union for Democracy and Development (UDD) party, a minor political party in Burkina Faso. Dakio...
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    Maurice Yaméogo (category Heads of state of Burkina Faso)
    1993) was the first President of the Republic of Upper Volta, now called Burkina Faso, from 1960 until 1966. "Monsieur Maurice" embodied the Voltaic state...
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  • October 2016. "Au Burkina Faso, le pouvoir affirme avoir déjoué une tentative de coup d'Etat". Le Monde.fr. 21 October 2016. "Burkina Faso 'coup attempt'...
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  • Mouritala Ogunbiyi Steve Mounié  Bosnia and Herzegovina Mehmed Baždarević  Burkina Faso Issouf Ouattara  Cameroon Benjamin Moukandjo  Central African Republic...
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    Retrieved 15 October 2011. "Exposé en Anglais sur la prostitution au Burkina Faso by Kader Rabo – mon exposé". Mon Expose. 16 February 2017. Archived...
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    October 1954 to 1962) Antilles (from 16 April 2005 to 15 June 2005). Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Tchad (Operation Barkhane, from 1 October...
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    December 2023. "Burkina Faso junta says it thwarted coup attempt". France 24. 27 September 2023. Retrieved 19 December 2023. "Au Burkina Faso, toujours des...
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    Transports Coloniaux 1935–1959, then Office d'Exploitation des Transports au Congo 1960–1970, and Office National des Transports 1971–2011, is a state-owned...
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    2017). "Le francais dans tous ses etats au quebec et au canada". Radio-Canada. "La Charte de la langue française au Québec ou Loi 101 - Le site de l'association...
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  • in the Asia/Oceania Zone, and 62 in the Europe/Africa Zone. Angola, Burkina Faso, Gabon, Mali and Rwanda made their first appearances in the tournament...
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    guiding principle for his political thought in his career as a statesman. In 1939, Senghor was enlisted in the 3rd Colonial Infantry Regiment of the French...
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  • Army) Général de corps d'armée (Benin Army) Général de corps d'armée (Burkina Faso Ground Forces) Général de corps d'armée (Cameroon Ground Forces) Général...
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    which the French were checked. After a series of engagements, most of Burkina Faso was at peace by the end of July 1916. In 1915 Brévié was visiting the...
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    Eritrea Ethiopia Cape* Verde Libya Mali Ghana Sierra Leone Ivory Coast Burkina Faso Mauritania Morocco São Tomé and Príncipe* Gabon Namibia Niger Nigeria...
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  • Sankara and Blaise Compaoré. Upper Volta was renamed Burkina Faso. Blaise Compaoré led the 1987 Burkina Faso coup d'état, which killed Thomas Sankara and reversed...
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    West Africa. It is bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. It is one of the least developed countries and extends...
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  • Zuma sentenced by South Africa's top court". BBC News. 29 June 2021. "Burkina Faso restores constitution, names coup leader president". Al Jazeera. 31 January...
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    "Arrivée des nouveaux ambassadeurs de la Serbie, des Philippines et du Burkina Faso". metropole.ht (in French). 28 January 2007. Retrieved 14 August 2023...
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    Christian Lara (film director) (category 1939 births)
    au Bâton (released posthumously) 2009: Le Mystère Joséphine 1999 – FESPACO's Paul Robeson African Diaspora best film award for Sucre Amer, (Burkina Faso)...
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  • "Burkina, Guinea, Mali: A new axis on the continent?". 9 February 2023. "Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger muse forming federation". 1 December 2023. "The 11th...
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    Staff writer (2017). "Permanent Representational and Specialised Offices: AU Permanent Representative to the United States". Permanent Observer Mission...
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  • André Hutin, an engineer. The young family moved to Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) in West Africa where Hutin worked as an engineer, but Jacqueline left...
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  • 1960 Independence for Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire 1960 Independence for Burkina Faso and Mali 1960 Independence for Burkina Faso and Niger 1931 South...
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    showed anti-colonial riots in Côte d'Ivoire and in Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso). Also doing film work in Africa at this time was French ethnographic...
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