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    que gagnent les hautes personnalités - leFaso.net, l'actualité au Burkina Faso". lefaso.net. "Burkina Faso transitional president names jurist as interim...
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  • Mariam Sankara (category First ladies of Burkina Faso)
    pronunciation: [sɑ̃kaʁa], née Sereme, born 26 March 1953) is the widow of Thomas Sankara, the President of Burkina Faso (previously named Upper Volta) from 4 August...
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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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    in Burkina Faso with a population of 1,129,000 (as of 2023[update]); it is the second-largest city in the country, after Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso's capital...
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  • Moumouni Fabré (category Government ministers of Burkina Faso)
    Moumouni Fabré (born 28 November 1953) is a Burkinabé politician who has served as the Ambassador of Burkina Faso to South Africa since 2008. He was Minister...
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    Kadré Désiré Ouédraogo (category Ambassadors of Burkina Faso to the United Kingdom)
    Désiré Ouédraogo (born 31 December 1953 in Boussouma) is a Burkinabè statesman. He was the Prime Minister of Burkina Faso from 1996 to 2000 and Chairman of...
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  • Nkurunziza (Burundi), and el-Sisi (Egypt). In 2005, the president of Burkina Faso, Blaise Compaoré, exploited a quirk of the 1991 constitution to stay...
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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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  • Ablassé Ouedraogo (category Foreign ministers of Burkina Faso)
    30 June 1953 in Dabaré) is a Burkinabé economist, diplomat and politician. Ouédraogo served as Minister of Foreign Affairs for Burkina Faso between 1994...
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  • French-language poet, Ivorian-Canadian journalist and poet raised in Burkina Faso Jacques Prosper Bazié (b. 1955), poet[Gikandi] Nazi Boni (1909–1969)...
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  • Célestine Ouezzin Coulibaly est native de la région de Banfora, au sud-ouest du Burkina Faso, autrefois la ... Institutrice de formation, Célestine Ouezzin...
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    January 1953 to 1956). Sénégal, Burkina Faso, Mauritanie, Mali and Niger (Opération Serval, from 11 January 2013). Tunisia (from 1 June 1953 to 1956)...
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    from terrorists during an operation in Burkina Faso. French commandos took down the location in Burkina Faso which was considered a terrorist camp. Two...
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    Eva Emnéus (category Ambassadors of Sweden to Burkina Faso)
    patches and irrigated perimeters. On 10 June 2016, Sweden requested Burkina Faso's backing for its bid to fill a non-permanent seat on the UN Security...
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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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  • October 2016. "Au Burkina Faso, le pouvoir affirme avoir déjoué une tentative de coup d'Etat". Le Monde.fr. 21 October 2016. "Burkina Faso's military Junta...
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    Union relations Angolan War of Independence Botswana–Russia relations Burkina Faso–Soviet Union relations Ethiopia–Russia relations Ivory Coast–Soviet Union...
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  • PRESIDENT DU FASO, PRESIDENT DU CONSEIL DES MINISTRES" (PDF). Conseil Constitutionnel Du Burkina Faso. 2002. "LA DÉMOCRATIE AU Burkina Faso" (PDF). "Nomination...
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    Africa, south of the Niger bend, near the city of Bandiagara, and in Burkina Faso. The population numbers between 400,000 and 800,000. They speak the Dogon...
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    August) Julien Lescarret [fr], matador Pessac is twinned with: Banfora, Burkina Faso Burgos, Spain Galați, Romania Göppingen, Germany Viana do Castelo, Portugal...
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    presence in Burkina Faso. Notably, they trace their lineage to the ruling dynasties of the ancient Songhai Empire. In Niger and Burkina Faso, differentiating...
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  • until the qualification campaign for the 1998 African Cup of Nations in Burkina Faso. They were drawn in a two-legged qualifier against Kenya, and lost the...
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  • palais". Aujourd'hui au Faso (in French). Archived from the original on 2023-06-17. Retrieved 2023-06-17. "Inside Burkina Faso's failing fight against...
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  • daughter, Catherine Hutin-Blay. The young family moved to Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) in West Africa where Hutin worked, but Jacqueline returned to France...
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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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    Retrieved 22 November 2017. Despite the Zimbabwe army's intervention, the AU did not characterise Mr Mugabe's ousting as a coup, but rather a legitimate...
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    used in Morocco in 1999; it has also been used between 1999 and 2002 in Burkina Faso and from 2005 in Senegal. Cloud seeding experiments and operations were...
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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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    that education is compulsory and free up to age 17.[citation needed] Burkina Faso has a very low literacy rate of 28.7%, defined as anyone at least 15...
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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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