• On 26 September 2023, dissidents of the Burkina Faso Armed Forces attempted to overthrow the ruling military junta led by Ibrahim Traoré, which came to...
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    Burkina Faso has good relations with the European Union, African and certain Asian countries. France, the former colonial power, in particular, continues...
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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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    A coup d'état was launched in Burkina Faso on 23 January 2022. Gunfire erupted in front of the presidential residence in the Burkinabé capital Ouagadougou...
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    The economy of Burkina Faso is based primarily on subsistence farming and livestock raising. Burkina Faso has an average income purchasing-power-parity...
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    WAH-gə-DOO-goo, Mossi: [ˈwɔɣədəɣʊ], French: [waɡaduɡu]) is the capital of Burkina Faso, and the administrative, communications, cultural and economic centre...
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    A coup d'état took place in Burkina Faso on 30 September 2022, removing Interim President Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba over his alleged inability to deal...
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    Youssouf Ouédraogo (category Members of the National Assembly of Burkina Faso)
    1992 he became the first Prime Minister of Burkina Faso since 1983, serving from 16 June 1992 to 22 March 1994. Ouédraogo, a member of the ruling Congress...
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    Roch Marc Christian Kaboré (category Heads of state of Burkina Faso)
    as the President of Burkina Faso from 2015 until he was deposed in 2022. He was the Prime Minister of Burkina Faso between 1994 and 1996 and President...
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  • "Biographie de M. Luc Hallade, ambassadeur de France au Burkina Faso". La France au Burkina Faso (in French). Retrieved 2021-04-12. Amt, Auswärtiges....
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  • ambassador of Canada to Burkina Faso is the official representative of the Canadian government to the government of Burkina Faso. The official title for...
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  • Gilbert Noël Ouédraogo (category Members of the National Assembly of Burkina Faso)
    Democratic Rally (ADF-RDA), a political party in Burkina Faso, since 2003. He served in the government of Burkina Faso as Minister of Social Action and National...
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  • EUROPEENNES, AMBASSADE DE FRANCE AU BURKINA FASO, FICHE BURKINA FASO, (French) http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/IMG/pdf/BURKINA_18-5-11__2_.pdf "Bobo-Dioulasso:...
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  • of Justice, Human Rights and Civic Promotion, Keeper of the Seals of Burkina Faso is responsible for the following: Justice (organization of the judicial...
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    The 2015 Burkina Faso coup d'état attempt was a failed coup d'état launched on 16 September 2015 in Burkina Faso, when members of the Regiment of Presidential...
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    General elections were held in Burkina Faso on 29 November 2015. The elections were the first national elections in the country since the 2014 Burkinabé...
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    The Burkina Faso–Ghana border is 602 km (374 m) in length and runs from the tripoint with Ivory Coast in the west to the tripoint with Togo in the east...
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    Islamist insurgency in the Sahel (category Wars involving Burkina Faso)
    particular, the intensive conflict in the three countries of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso has been referred to as the Sahel War. The conflict is generally seen...
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    Human rights in Burkina Faso are addressed in its constitution, which was ratified in 1991. The 2009 Human Rights Report by the United States Department...
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    Djibril Bassolé (category Foreign ministers of Burkina Faso)
    a Burkinabé politician and diplomat. He served in the government of Burkina Faso as Minister of Security from 2000 to 2007 and as Minister of Foreign...
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    Monique Ilboudo (category Ambassadors of Burkina Faso to Denmark)
    human rights activist from Burkina Faso. As of 2012, she was Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Burkina Faso to the Nordic and Baltic countries...
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    Hillel Konaté (category Burkina Faso men's international footballers)
    former youth international for the Ivory Coast, Konaté plays for the Burkina Faso national team. Konaté began playing football in the youth academy of...
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    Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (category Film festivals in Burkina Faso)
    et de la télévision de Ouagadougou, or FESPACO) is a film festival in Burkina Faso, held biennially in Ouagadougou, where the organization is based. It...
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  • nearby countries, such as in Guinea, Mali, and Sudan in 2021, and two in Burkina Faso in January and September 2022, which has led to the region being called...
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    Harouna Kaboré (category Trade ministers of Burkina Faso)
    consultant He was Minister of Commerce, Industry and Handicrafts of Burkina faso from January 2018 to December 2021. Dr Harouna Kaboré was born on July...
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    between rural and city life and tradition and modernity in his native Burkina Faso and elsewhere in Africa. He is best known for his feature film Tilaï...
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  • Lobi people (category Ethnic groups in Burkina Faso)
    Burkina Faso and later into Côte d'Ivoire. The group consists of a little over a 1,000,000 people. They make up about 2.4 percent of the Burkina Faso...
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    Siméon Sawadogo (category Government ministers of Burkina Faso)
    SAWADOGO". Presidence du Faso (in French). Archived from the original on 24 March 2020. Retrieved 24 March 2020. "Remaniement au Burkina Faso". BBC News (in French)...
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  • 1983 Upper Voltan coup d'état (category Military coups in Burkina Faso)
    1983, a coup d'état was launched in the Republic of Upper Volta (today Burkina Faso) in an event sometimes referred to as the August revolution (French:...
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    Victory", Mossi: "Burkina Faso fãag-m-meng yɩɩlle";) or "Une Seule Nuit" ("One Single Night"), is the national anthem of Burkina Faso. Former president...
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