Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso is a country in West Africa. The country has no coastline and borders with Mali to the north, Niger to the east, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south and Ivory Coast to the southwest. Its name was until the fourth August 1984 Upper Volta.
Burkina Faso is almost 6 times as large as Denmark (274.000 km ²) with a population of just over 13 million. Capital, which also is its largest city, called Ouagadougou, and has a population about 1 million inhabitants.
History
The area was colonized by France in 1890 when they defeated the Mossi tribe. Then it was initially administered as a part of Ivory Coast until, in 1919 was spun off as a separate colony. This status was later repealed, but in 1947 it was again a separate colony, and at this time under the name of Upper Volta.
The country became autonomous in 1958 and fully independent in 1960. The first of several military coups took place in 1966. In 1978 the country again civilian rule, which lasted until 1980. Since Saye Zerbo led a new coup, after which he was in charge for the next coup in 1982. In 1983, stood among other things, the current president, Blaise Compaoré, behind a coup led by Thomas Sankara, who was a captain in the army. 15. October 1987 Sankara assassinated in a coup led by Blaise Compaoré.
In 1985 the country was in a brief war with Mali. Burkina Faso completed at this time a census in which each refugee camps in the Malian border was visited by count. This was taken ill, and first Christmas Day 1985, war between the two countries. It lasted only five days and cost about 100 lives, mostly civilians, were killed when a plane from Mali bombed market Ouahigouya.
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