Ban is a town in the Solenzo Department of Banwa Province in western Burkina Faso. As of 2005 it had a population of 8,776. Liste des villages de al region...

Events in the year 2024 in Burkina Faso. President: Ibrahim Traoré Prime Minister: Apollinaire Joachim Kyélem de Tambèla President of the Patriotic Movement...

Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta) is a landlocked Sahel country that shares borders with six nations. It lies between the Sahara desert and the Gulf...

The Burkina Faso Armed Forces (French: Forces armées du Burkina Faso) is the term used for the national military of Burkina Faso. The service branches...

The 2014 Burkina Faso uprising was a series of demonstrations and riots in Burkina Faso in October 2014 that quickly spread to multiple cities. They began...

Marxist revolutionary and Pan-Africanist who served as President of Burkina Faso from his coup in 1983 to his assassination in 1987. After being appointed...

Burkina Faso, is a landlocked country in West Africa, bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana...

Ban, Burkina Faso, a town in Burkina Faso Bans, Jura, a commune in eastern France Ban, Murree, a village and UC of Rawalpindi District, Pakistan Ban,...

The history of Burkina Faso includes the history of various kingdoms within the country, such as the Mossi kingdoms, as well as the later French colonisation...

1988) is a Burkinabè military officer who has been the interim leader of Burkina Faso since the September 2022 coup d'état that ousted interim president Paul-Henri...

Africa established in 1919 in the territory occupied by present-day Burkina Faso. It was formed from territories that had been part of the colonies of...

A landlocked sub-Saharan country, Burkina Faso is among the poorest countries in the world—44 percent of its population lives below the international poverty...

The mass media in Burkina Faso consists of print media and state-supported radio, news, and television stations, along with several private broadcasters...

Révolution, CDRs) were systems of local revolutionary cells, established in Burkina Faso by the Marxist-Leninist and pan-Africanist leader Thomas Sankara, President...

The Catholic Church in Burkina Faso is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. According to the CIA...

News Agency". Retrieved 27 November 2017. "Burkina Faso endorses law on sustainable development and bans non-biodegradable plastic bags – UN Environment"...

full independence from France. On 4 August 1984, it changed its name to Burkina Faso. The name Upper Volta indicated that the country contains the upper part...

États du Sahel (AES)) is a confederation formed between Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso. It originated as a mutual defense pact created on 16 September 2023...

Prime Minister of Burkina Faso from 2021 to 2022. Prior to that he was the Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization...

Abortion in Burkina Faso is only legal in the following circumstances; If the abortion will save the woman's life If the pregnancy gravely endangers the...

who had ruled Burkina Faso for 27 years. The party of former President Compaoré, the Congress for Democracy and Progress, was banned from presenting...

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...

members of the Burkina Faso Armed Forces summarily executed around 223 civilians, including 56 children, in Yatenga Province, northern Burkina Faso. The massacres...

30), Ibrahim Traoré (since September 30) 16–27 January - January 2022 Burkina Faso coup d'état: A coup to oust president Kaboré over alleged insecurity...

This is a list of notable people from Burkina Faso, formerly French Upper Volta. Sarah Bouyain (born 1968), French-Burkinabé film director Gaston Kaboré...

ISO 3166-2:BF is the entry for Burkina Faso in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization...

a Burkinabé politician who was President of the National Assembly of Burkina Faso from 2015 to 2017. He was a key associate of President Blaise Compaoré...

to 2022. After being in the running to become the prime minister of Burkina Faso, she served as the minister of economy, finance and development from...

clitoral reconstruction for African women and sought to build a hospital in Burkina Faso where they can also receive post-operative instruction in masturbation...

has been active in the Central African Republic, Sudan, Libya, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and Mozambique, among other African countries. In 2024, the Wagner...