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Burkina Faso [a] is a landlocked country in West Africa, [6] bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Ivory Coast to the southwest. It covers an area of 274,223 km 2 (105,878 sq mi). In 2021, the country had an estimated population of approximately 23,674,480. [14]
Ouagadougou Airport handles about 98% of all scheduled commercial air traffic in Burkina Faso. Air Burkina and Air France handle about 60% of scheduled passenger traffic. Between 2005 and 2011, air passenger traffic at Ouagadougou airport grew at an average annual rate of 7.0%, reaching about 404,726 passengers in 2011 and was estimated to ...
Prime Minister of Burkina Faso: Apollinaire Joachim Kyélem de Tambèla: 21 October 2022 – present Chief of Staff: Ferdinand Ouedraogo: 21 October 2022 – present Minister of State: Colonel Major Kassoum Coulibaly: 21 October 2022 – present Minister of Defense and Veterans Affairs: Colonel Major Kassoum Coulibaly: 21 October 2022 – present
The Politics of Burkina Faso takes place in a framework of a semi-presidential republic, whereby the Prime Minister of Burkina Faso is the head of government, and of a multi-party system. The President of Burkina Faso is the head of state. Executive power is exercised by both the President and the Government.
Burkina Faso is divided into 45 electoral provinces within their 13 regions. Each province elects between two and nine representatives, and these representatives are members of political parties . There are 111 members of the National Assembly elected to represent provinces, and 16 nationally elected, totaling 127.
Ouagadougou or Wagadugu [2] (/ ˌ w ɑː ɡ ə ˈ d uː ɡ uː /, Mossi: Waogdgo Mossi: [ˈwɔɣədəɣʊ], Dyula: Wagadugu, French: Ouagadougou French:) is the capital of Burkina Faso, [3] and the administrative, communications, cultural and economic centre of the nation.
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Almost half of Burkina Faso's territory is in the hands of al-Qaeda-linked terrorists. [6] The war is part of the wider insurgency in the Sahel. [8] [9] [10] In August 2024, jihadists began to close in on the Barsalogho Department city of Kaya, which represented the last defensive line between the terrorists and Burkina Faso's capital of ...