* Alliance for Progress and Freedom, Alliance pour le Progrès et la Liberté, a political party in Burkina Faso, a country in West Africa

Countries where ASL or a derivative of ASL is the national or a widespread language include Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana ( with BSL ), Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, the Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d ' Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Kenya ( minority use ), Liberia, Madagascar ( minority use ), Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Philippines ( L2 use ), Puerto Rico, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Trinidad and Tobago, Togo, and Zimbabwe ( with ZSL ).

* 1960 – Burkina Faso, then known as Upper Volta, becomes independent from France.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Burkina Faso from France in 1960.

* 1984 – The Republic of Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.

* Revolution Day ( Burkina Faso )

* West African Agricultural Market Observer / Observatoire du Marché Agricole ( RESIMAO ), a project of the West-African Market Information Network ( WAMIS-NET ), provides live market and commodity prices from fifty seven regional and local public agricultural markets across Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d ' Ivoire, Guinea, Niger, Mali, Senegal, Togo, and Nigeria.

Map Of Burkina Faso

Topography of Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso ( formerly Upper Volta ) is a landlocked Sahel country that shares borders with six nations.

Most of central Burkina Faso lies on a savanna plateau, above sea level, with fields, brush, and scattered trees.

Previously the endangered Painted Hunting Dog, Lycaon pictus occurred in Burkina Faso, but, although last sightings were made in Arli National Park, the species is considered extirpated in Burkina Faso.

Satellite image of Burkina Faso, generated from raster graphics data supplied by The Map LibraryMain articles: Geography of Burkina Faso and Climate of Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso lies mostly between latitudes 9 ° and 15 ° N ( a small area is north of 15 °), and longitudes 6 ° W and 3 ° E.

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.

In 1992 he became the first Prime Minister of Burkina Faso since 1983, serving from June 16, 1992 to March 22, 1994.

In 16 years with the national team, he has been to the African Nations cup, a record eight times ( serving as Captain in five competitions excerpt in South Africa 1996, Burkina Faso in 1998 and Angola 2010 ).

A demonstration project involving various private companies is planned to take place over 12-18 months in 16 countries including: Algeria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Egypt, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mali, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa and Uganda.

Burkina Faso's game preserves — the most important of which are Arly, Nazinga, and W National Park -- contain lions, elephants, hippopotamus, monkeys, warthogs, and antelopes.

Burkina Faso is therefore a relatively flat country.

Burkina Faso has a primarily tropical climate with two very distinct seasons.

A relatively dry tropical savanna, the Sahel extends beyond the borders of Burkina Faso, from the Horn of Africa to the Atlantic Ocean, and borders the Sahara to its north and the fertile region of the Sudan to the South.

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.

This is a list of the extreme points of Burkina Faso, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location.

This article is about the demographic features of the population of Burkina Faso, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

Demographics of Burkina Faso, Data of Food and Agriculture Organization | FAO, year 2005 ; Number of inhabitants in thousands.

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

The Mossi claim descent from warriors who migrated to present-day Burkina Faso and established an empire that lasted more than 800 years.

About 12, 000 Europeans reside in Burkina Faso, the majority are French.

The introduction of Islam to Burkina Faso was initially resisted by the Mossi rulers.

The Politics of Burkina Faso takes place in a framework of a presidential republic, whereby the President of Burkina Faso is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system.

The IISS estimated in 2011-12 that Burkina Faso had 6, 400 personnel in the Armee de Terre in three military regions, one tank battalion ( two tank platoons ), five infantry regiments that may be understrength, and an airborne regiment.

Benin's latitude ranges from 6 ° 30 ′ N to 12 ° 30 ′ N and its longitude from 1 ° E to 3 ° 40 ′ E. Benin is bounded by Togo to the west, Burkina Faso and Niger to the north, Nigeria to the east, and the Bight of Benin to the south.

The Mossi are the largest ethnic group in Burkina Faso, constituting more than 40 % of the population, or about 6. 2 million people.

# Case Concerning the Frontier Dispute ( Burkina Faso v Republic of Mali ) ( Judgment ) ICJ Reports 554 at 567 – 8 ; North Sea Continental Shelf cases, note 6 at 46 – 50.

A proposed rail link between Ouagadougou and Pô in Burkina Faso and Kumasi and Boankra in Ghana, has been discussed with Ghanaian officials, and feasibility studies are being undertaken to explore this possibility, which would provide rail access to the inland port of Bonakra.

Burkina Faso and Ghana use different rail gauges and this break-of-gauge can be overcome to a greater or lesser extent with a number of methods.

Additionally, a Czech proposal also surfaced to link Ghana railways with Burkina Faso.

With the coming to power of Thomas Sankara in Burkina Faso in 1983, relations between Ghana and Burkina became both warm and close.

Indeed, Rawlings and Sankara began discussions about uniting Ghana and Burkina in the manner of the defunct Ghana-Guinea-Mali Union, which Nkrumah had sought unsuccessfully to promote as a foundation for his dream of unified continental government.

Political and economic ties between Ghana and Burkina, a poorer country, were strengthened through joint commissions of cooperation and through border demarcation committee meetings.

A bongo drinks from a swamp. Angola, Benin extinct ?, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Côte d ' Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya ( the only place where the eastern bongo are found in the wild ), Liberia, Mali, Niger, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo extinct?

The country is shaped like a square and borders the Gulf of Guinea on the north Atlantic Ocean to the south ( 515 km of coastline ) and five other African nations on the other three sides, with a total of 3, 110 km of borders: Liberia to the southwest ( 716 km ), Guinea to the northwest ( 610 km ), Mali to the north-northwest ( 532 km ), Burkina Faso to the north-northeast, and Ghana to the east ( 668 km ).

The Trans – West African Coastal Highway provides a paved link to Ghana, Togo, Benin and Nigeria, with paved highways to landlocked Mali and Burkina Faso feeding into the coastal highway.

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The WHO estimated that an additional 10 – 20 babies die per 1, 000 deliveries as a result of FGM ; the estimate was based on a 2006 study conducted on 28, 393 women attending delivery wards at 28 obstetric centers in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and Sudan.

The N2, which connects Tema in the Greater Accra Region to Kulungugu in the Upper East Region ; the N10, which connects Yamoransa in the Central Region to Paga in the Upper East Region ; and the N12, which connects Elubo in the Western Region to Hamile in the Upper West Region ; all connect Ghana to landlocked Burkina Faso, where it joins another highway in the Trans-African network, the Trans-Sahelian Highway.

With the coming to power of Thomas Sankara in Burkina Faso in 1983, relations between Ghana and Burkina became both warm and close.

Indeed, Rawlings and Sankara began discussions about uniting Ghana and Burkina in the manner of the defunct Ghana-Guinea-Mali Union, which Nkrumah had sought unsuccessfully to promote as a foundation for his dream of unified continental government.

Political and economic ties between Ghana and Burkina, a poorer country, were strengthened through joint commissions of cooperation and through border demarcation committee meetings.

Immediately west from Ghana ( in Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso ), Hausa is abruptly replaced by Dioula – Bambara as the main lingua-franca of what become predominantly Manding areas, and native Hausa populations plummet to a very small urban minority.

* The Trans – West African Coastal Highway starts in Nigeria, connecting it westwards to Benin, Togo, Ghana and Côte d ' Ivoire with feeder highways to landlocked Burkina Faso and Mali.

It borders the Bight of Benin in the south ; Ghana lies to the west ; Benin to the east ; and to the north Togo is bound by Burkina Faso.

It is bordered by three countries: Benin to the east, with of border ; Burkina Faso to the north, with of border ; and Ghana, with of border.

* Northern-most point – the tripoint with Ghana and Burkina Faso, Savanes Region

* Western-most point-the tripoint with Ghana and Burkina Faso, Savanes Region