* 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.

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

On April 18, 2011, it was reported that a military mutiny in Burkina Faso had spread to a fourth city, Kaya, after demonstrations in Po and Tenkodogo.

In October 1985, the Force Aérienne de Burkina Faso, or FABF, was officially inaugurated.

In 1992, the embassy of the Russian Federation in Ouagadougou was closed, and in 1996, the embassy of Burkina Faso in Moscow was closed.

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.

While police control barriers are a common sight on African highways, and while illicit demands for bribes at such stops are common in many countries, the main Malian highway heading south from Bamako to the Burkina Faso border was singled out in late 2008 as the worst in West Africa.

From medieval times until the end of the 19th century, the region of Burkina Faso was ruled by the empire-building Mossi people, who are believed to have come up to their present location from northern Ghana, where the ethnically-related Dagomba people still live.

Agreements with Liberia in 1892 and with Britain in 1893 determined the eastern and western boundaries of the colony, but the northern boundary was not fixed until 1947 because of efforts by the French government to attach parts of Upper Volta ( present-day Burkina Faso ) and French Sudan ( present-day Mali ) to Côte d ' Ivoire for economic and administrative reasons.

Among those offering greatest resistance was Samori Ture, who in the 1880s and 1890s was establishing an empire that extended over large parts of present-day Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Côte d ' Ivoire.

The river gave its name to French Upper Volta and then the Republic of Upper Volta before that country was renamed Burkina Faso in 1984.

A fund of about £ 20, 000 was distributed to the crisis-hit countries of Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso and Mauritania.

The flag was changed when Upper Volta became Burkina Faso on 4 August 1984.

Big Piney was one of four international locations chosen for the 2006 documentary film Comrades in Dreams, about the impact of local movie theaters in four different cultures ( North Korea, Burkina Faso, India and Wyoming ).

Gbagbo said in July 2008 that he had received crucial support from Blaise Compaoré, currently the President of Burkina Faso, while he was part of the underground opposition to Houphouët-Boigny.

A peace deal between the government and the rebels, or New Forces, was signed on 4 March 2007, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, and subsequently Guillaume Soro, leader of the New Forces, became Prime Minister.

Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara ( December 21, 1949 – October 15, 1987 ) was a Burkinabé military captain, Marxist revolutionary, Pan-Africanist theorist, and President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987.

Although sometimes divided into Northern and Southern Dagaare speakers, their combined population was estimated in 2003 at over one million spread across the Northwest corner of Ghana and Sud-Ouest Region in Southwestern Burkina Faso.

* Burkina Faso was since 20 February 1895 a French protectorate named Upper Volta ( Haute-Volta )

Major Dr. Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo ( born June 30, 1942 ) was President of Upper Volta ( now Burkina Faso ) from 8 November 1982 to 4 August 1983, when he was overthrown in a coup d ’ état which brought Thomas Sankara into power.

Colonel Saye Zerbo ( born 27 August 1932 ) was a President of Upper Volta ( now Burkina Faso ) from 25 November 1980 to 7 November 1982.

His conviction from 1984 was annulled on 18 February 1997 by the supreme court of Burkina Faso.

The second, $ 315 million investment, is slated for Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad and Ivory Coast.

* Soil Maps of Burkina Faso European Digital Archive on the Soil Maps of the world

Burkina Faso is one of the poorest countries in the world with an average income per capita of € 250 ( US $ 300 ).

Primary School in Gando, Burkina FasoEducation in Burkina Faso is structured in much the same way as in the rest of the world ; primary, secondary, and higher education.

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

In March 2007 Andersen Press published Sophie and the Locust Curse, a novel by British children's author Stephen Davies about the devastating impact of the 2004 locust swarm on communities in the Sahel region of Burkina Faso.

Mauritania's preliminary was a two-legged match against the Upper Volta ( now Burkina Faso ) and they drew the first match 1-1 away in Ouagadougou in 13 March.