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*4 AUGUST 1984*
(the “Republic of Upper Volta” changes its name to “Burkina Faso”
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-‘burkina faso’ is a land-locked ‘west african’ country-
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(won independence from france in 1960)
(on august 5!)
renamed on 4 august 1984 to “burkina faso”
(“burkina” is african for “men of integrity”)
(“faso” is african for “father’s house”)
(so “burkina faso” means “the land of upright people”)
(274,200 square kilometres (105,900 sq mi) in size)
(it is surrounded by 6 countries: ‘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 capital is ‘Ouagadougou’)
(in 2014, its population was estimated at just over 17.3 million)
(‘Burkina Faso’ is a ‘francophone’ country)
(it has a population of 18.7 million as of 2016)
(formerly called the ‘Republic of Upper Volta’, the country was renamed “Burkina Faso” on 4 August 1984 by then-President ‘Thomas Sankara’)
(residents of Burkina Faso are known as Burkinabé)
(‘french’ is an official language of government and business)
(before the conquest of what is now ‘Burkina Faso’ by the ‘French’ and other colonial powers during the late 19th century the country was ruled by various ethnic groups including the ‘Mossi’ kingdoms)
(after gaining independence from ‘France’ in 1960, the country underwent many governmental changes)
(‘Blaise Compaoré’ was the most recent president and ruled the country from 1987 until he was ousted from power by the popular youth upheaval of 31 October 2014)
(this resulted in a semi-presidential republic which lasted from October 2014 to September 2015)
(on 17 September 2015 the provisional government was in turn toppled by an apparent ‘military coup d’état’ carried out by the ‘Regiment of Presidential Security’)
(on 24 september 2015, after pressure from the ‘african union’, ‘ECOWAS’, and the ‘armed forces’, the ‘military junta’ agreed to step down, and ‘michel kafando’ was reinstated as ‘acting president’)
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*A HISTORY OF “XXX”*
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*CURRENT STATUS*
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*OUR CONCLUSIONS*
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