who is the president of burkina faso?”
Burkina Faso is a landlocked nation in West Africa. It is surrounded by six countries: Mali to the north, Niger to the east, Benin to the south east, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Côte d’Ivoire to the south west. A 2002 estimate of Burkina Faso’s population came in at 12,603,185. Its inhabitants are known as Burkinabè. Formerly the Republic of Upper Volta, it was renamed on August 4, 1984 by President Thomas Sankara to mean “the land of upright people” (or “upright land”) in Mossi and Dioula, the major native languages of the country. A impoverished country, several hundred thousand farm workers migrate south every year to Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana in search of paid labour.
