The BurkinaFaso national football team (French: Équipe de football du BurkinaFaso) represents BurkinaFasoin men's international football and is controlled...
BurkinaFaso is a landlocked country in West Africa. It covers an area of 274,223 km2 (105,878 sq mi), bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the...
Telecommunications inBurkinaFaso include radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet. The telephony market inBurkinaFaso is still relatively...
ongoing war and civil conflict between the Government of BurkinaFaso and Islamist rebels began in August 2015 and has led to the displacement of over 2...
The economy of BurkinaFaso is based primarily on subsistence farming and livestock raising. BurkinaFaso has an average income purchasing-power-parity...
BurkinaFaso is a religiously diverse society, with Islam being the dominant religion. According to the latest 2019 census, 63.8% of the population adheres...
BurkinaFaso's 22.1 million people belong to two major West African cultural groups: the Gur (Voltaic) and the Mandé. The Voltaic are far more numerous...
A landlocked sub-Saharan country, BurkinaFaso is among the poorest countries in the world—44 percent of its population lives below the international poverty...
The regions of BurkinaFaso are divided into 45 administrative provinces. These 45 provinces are currently sub-divided into 351 departments or communes...
BurkinaFaso elects on the national level a head of state – the president – and a legislature. The president is elected for a five-year term by the people...
BurkinaFaso (formerly Upper Volta) is a landlocked Sahel country that shares borders with six nations. It lies between the Sahara desert and the Gulf...
of BurkinaFaso. In 1995, it became the lower house of a bicameral parliament, but the upper house (Chamber of Representatives) was abolished in 2002...
and Pan-Africanist who served as President of BurkinaFaso from his coup in 1983 to his assassination in 1987. He is viewed by supporters as a charismatic...
often plays a significant role inBurkinaFaso’s economy. BurkinaFaso has become Africa's 4th biggest producer of gold in2012. Production of mineral commodities...
BurkinaFaso has good relations with the European Union, African and certain Asian countries. France, the former colonial power, in particular, continues...
Terrorism inBurkinaFaso refers to non-state actor violence inBurkinaFaso carried out with the intent of causing fear and spreading extremist ideology...
The history of BurkinaFaso includes the history of various kingdoms within the country, such as the Mossi kingdoms, as well as the later French colonisation...
The music of BurkinaFaso includes the folk music of 60 different ethnic groups. The Mossi people, centrally located around the capital, Ouagadougou, account...
BurkinaFaso is largely wild bush country with a mixture of grass and small trees in varying proportions. The savanna region is mainly grassland in the...
BurkinaFaso has sent athletes to every Summer Olympic Games held since 1988. Under its previous name of Upper Volta (VOL), the country also competed in...
of the BurkinaFaso Armed Forces attempted to overthrow the ruling military junta led by Ibrahim Traoré, which came to power a year earlier. In a previous...
The 2011 BurkinaFaso protests were a series of popular protests inBurkinaFaso. On 15 February, members of the military mutinied in the capital Ouagadougou...
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