Burkina Faso's natural resources include manganese, limestone, marble, phosphates, pumice, salt and small deposits of gold.

Burkina Faso's fauna and flora are protected in two national parks and several reserves: see List of national parks in Africa, Nature reserves of Burkina Faso.

Burkina Faso's 15, 3 million people belong to two major West African cultural groups — the Gur ( Voltaic ) and the Mandé.

The branches of Burkina Faso's military include its Army, Air Force, National Gendarmerie, National Police, and People's Militia.

In recent years, the United States has begun providing military assistance and training to Burkina Faso's ground forces.

Burkina Faso's military aircraft operated by the FABF totals 19 aircraft of 15 different models, including 11 helicopters.

Burkina Faso's relations with its West African neighbors have improved in recent years.

Since the 2002 civil war in Côte d ' Ivoire, relations between it and Burkina Faso have been filled with accusations of Burkinabé support for rebels on one side and claims of mistreatment of Burkinabé workers on the other .< ref > Blaise Campaoré :<< La crise ivoirienne inquiète le Burkina >>, Le Figaro, December 11, 2005 </ ref > Côte d ' Ivoire remains Burkina Faso's largest regional trading partner in spite of their disputes and tens of thousands of Burkinabés continue to work in the Ivory Coast.

It has been declared as Burkina Faso's first World Heritage site.

* Est Region ( Burkina Faso ), one of Burkina Faso's 13 administrative regions

Djembe drums and balafon are often manufactured in Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso's second-largest city.

The other 60 % of Burkina Faso's population is composed of more than 60 ethnic groups, mainly the Gurunsi, Senufo, Lobi, Bobo, and Fulani.

: Scores and results list Burkina Faso's goal tally first

Burkina Faso's goal tally first.

Burkina Faso hosts the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou ( FESPACO ) every two years in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso's capital.

Gaston Kaboré ( born 1951 ) is a Burkinabé film director and an important figure in Burkina Faso's film industry .< ref name =" BBC ">

Inter-country conflicts have been few, with Mali and Burkina Faso's nearly bloodless Agacher Strip War being a rare exception.

With independence came a new style of theatre inspired by forum theatre aimed at educating and entertaining Burkina Faso's rural people.

However, many high-profile gaming publications panned the game, with common criticisms including frequent crashes, a poorly designed user interface, features that were either not implemented or apparently ineffective, and frequent implausible, nonsensical, and unexplained events occurring during the game ( such as Poland declaring war on Burkina Faso for unclear reasons ).

Peter Ndlovu provided the funding for the senior national team's stay in DRC when they were preparing for the game in Kinshasa, and also helped them in Burkina Faso when he scored two brilliant goals. During the 2004 Africa cup nations Ndlovu scored three brilliant goals.

Similar divine spirits are also found in the Central and West African traditions from which they derive — the orishas of Yoruba cultures, the nkisi of Bantu ( Kongo ) traditions, and the Vodun of Dahomey ( Benin ), Togo, southern Ghana, and Burkina Faso.

Its backbone was Nigerian armed forces and financial resources, with sub-battalion strength units contributed by other ECOWAS members — Ghana, Guinea, Sierra Leone, The Gambia, Liberia, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, and others.

* Asylumlaw. org: Sexual Minorities & HIV Status ( Burkina Faso ) — various information packets used for asylum purposes

At its creation in 1969, only five African countries — Senegal, Upper Volta ( Burkina Faso ), Ivory Coast, Niger and Cameroon — were represented, and also France and the Netherlands, and only 23 films were shown.

At its second edition, the participant countries rose from five to nine — Algeria, Tunisia, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Niger, Senegal, Mali, Upper Volta ( Now Burkina Faso ) and Ghana — with 40 films shown.

The most common dialects of Mandeka kan are Bamanan kan and Djoula kan. Djoula kan, a sub-dialect of Bamanan kan, is spoken by descendants of Bamanan people who settled mainly in Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso through trade or the expansion of the Mande Empire and the Bamanan and Kenedougou kingdoms.

“ Nawalagmba ”, in Mossi, the most spoken language in Burkina Faso means: “ The one coming to unite, to gather the others ”.

Unlike most African countries, Burkina Faso has not yet had a popular national style, and the most popular recordings are imported from Europe, the United States, Democratic Republic of the Congo to invest, large-scale concerts, advanced recording studios, electric instruments and amplification and widespread distribution are difficult.

He made his first appearance at the 13th Nations Cup Finals in Libya in 1982 and for the next 16 years ( ending at the 21st Finals in Burkina Faso ) continued to grace the most prestigious football tournament on the continent, first as a member of Ghana's squad rising to become captain in 1991.

Their best-known members are Bambara, the most widely spoken language in Mali ; Mandinka, the main language of Gambia ; Maninka or Malinké, a major language of Guinea ; and Dyula, a trade language of the northern Ivory Coast and western Burkina Faso.

It became one of the largest states in Africa stretching from modern day Burkina Faso to Cameroon and including most of Northern Nigeria.

Since the reestablishment of the office of Prime Minister in 1992, all Prime Ministers of Burkina Faso have been members of this party, as have most other national officials, and the party has the most seats in Parliament.

; Tendana: In the earlier days the area of present day Burkina Faso and most parts of the northern region of Ghana was inhabited by acephalous tribes.

They are the most successful African team at Confederation level, winning the ACN seven times: the inaugural ACN in Sudan in 1957, at home in 1959, 1986 and Egypt in 2006, and in Burkina Faso in 1998, Ghana in 2008, and Angola in 2010.

Ouahigouya is the most important town in northern Burkina Faso.

Internationally, he has played at a record eight Africa Cup of Nations tournaments and served as captain in five ( the only ones he was not captain for were South Africa 1996, Burkina Faso 1998 and Angola 2010 ), a record, and holds the record of most consecutive games played in the tournament with 35 first team games.

Ambassador Chowdhury has been decorated by the Government of Burkina Faso with the country ’ s highest honour “ L ’ Ordre Nacionale ” on 18 June 2007 in Ouagadougou for his championship of the cause of the most vulnerable countries.

Burkina is also one of the countries producing most feature films in Africa.

Schlingensief's commitment to developing nations later took him to Burkina Faso, where he was awarded a concession to build an opera house, arguably his most ambitious project.

Trade networks, famously led by the Wangara mercantile confederations, spread Soninke people and culture throughout most of Mali and Senegal, southern Mauritania, northern Burkina Faso, as well as parts of The Gambia, and Guinea-Bissau.

Idrissa Ouedraogo, probably the most commercially successful African director, is from Burkina Faso.

While exact statistics on religion in Burkina Faso are not available and vary widely, the Government of Burkina Faso estimated in its most recent census ( 1996 ) that approximately 60 percent of the population practice Islam, and that the majority of this group belong to the Sunni branch, while remaining minorities adhere to the Shi ' a branch, and significant numbers of Sunni Muslims identify with the Tijaniyah Sufi, or Salafi traditions.