ACCRA, June 4 (Xinhua) -- Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) gathered in Accra, the Ghanaian capital, Saturday, hoping to find a solution to the political situations in Mali, Guinea, and Burkina Faso. Opening ECOWAS' 6th Extraordinary Session of the Authority o...
According to the communique, two missions respectively led by the regional body's Committee of Chiefs of Defense Staff and Council of Ministers will be dispatched to Burkina Faso to assess the security and political situation. The ECOWAS leadership will reconvene in the Ghanaian capital next Thursda...
will allow the government to reduce the budget deficit and preserve critical spending on social services and priority public investments.While the end of the political crisis has allowed Burkina Faso’s economy to resume positive growth, the country’s fragile security situation could put these gains...
Burkina Faso has been reeling under multiple socioeconomic and political turbulences prior to 2020 when the Covid-19 pandemic hit the country. Similarly, structural inequalities based on gender and location determined the intensity of Covid-19 impacts on the population. The chapter analysed Burkina ...
Provides information on Burkina Faso, a country located in the African region as of March 2005. Ethnology; Government and political conditions; Economic situation; Travel and business information for visiting Americans.EBSCO_bspBackground Notes on Countries of the World Burkina Faso...
Burkina Faso is not the only country in Africa where incumbent politicians are ‘engineering’ the political system to remain in power. In Côte d’Ivoire, President Ouattara argued a new constitution reset his term limits; in Guinea, President Alpha Condé offered the same exact argument for ...
trade and investment and making progress toward political pluralism. The USTR's office said Burkina Faso had failed to meet the requirements of the AGOA statute and would be given "clear benchmarks" for a pathway toward reinstatement to the trade program, adding that Washingt...
“Burkina Faso’s ‘West African Spring,'”The Nation, February 2014. Additional Resources The following are articles and reports that provide an overview of the situation in Burkina Faso. “Deadly Standoff Leaves Burkina Faso Stunned,”The New York Times, January 2016. ...
The political class is a limited group, where most personalities know each other well. This is both because Burkina Faso is a small country and also because much of the elite studied abroad in the same universities, in either Paris, where the country maintains a student hostel in the rue Fe...
The socioeconomic, legal and political conditions for artisanal gold mining in Burkina Faso have changed several times since the 1980s. Three key phases can be observed: 1) from 1986, when the parastatal gold buying firm CBMP (Comptoir Burkinabè des Métaux Précieux Métaux Précieux, Burkinabe...