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 Burkina Faso  

Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso Basic Data Official Country Name: Burkina Faso Region (Map name): Africa Population: 11,946,065 Language(s): French, native African languages Literacy rate: 19.2% Burkina Faso, a landlocked country in western Africa (formerly known...
January 1, 2003; World Press Encyclopedia

Genetic characterization of HPAI (H5N1) viruses from poultry and wild vultures, Burkina Faso.(DISPATCHES)(Author abstract)(Clinical report)
...poultry and hooded vultures in Burkina Faso shows that these viruses belong...including Niger, Egypt, Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Sudan, and Djibouti...subtype H5N1) was first confirmed in Burkina Faso. We genetically analyzed influenza...
April 1, 2007; Emerging Infectious Diseases

Burkina Faso: Politics and Government
00-00-0000 Politics and Government Burkina Faso received its independence from...Upper Volta and changed its name to Burkina Faso on August 14, 1984. The country...During the following 17 years, Burkina Faso experienced several military coups...
January 1, 1991; Countries of the World

Abortion: an open secret? Abortion and social network involvement in Burkina Faso.(OTHER FEATURES)
Abstract: Abortion in Burkina Faso is a subject that neither abortion...Qualitative investigations in Burkina Faso among 13 key informants in a rural...study found that young women in Burkina Faso are impelled to talk to their boyfriends...
November 1, 2007; Reproductive Health Matters

Burkina Faso launches drive to repatriate citizens fleeing anti-foreigner violence in rebel-divided Ivory Coast
...00-0000 Dateline: OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso A government convoy carried hundreds...of a new program by neighboring Burkina Faso to bring some of their millions...welcomed as labor, the 3 million Burkina Faso citizens increasingly are targets...
November 14, 2002; AP Worldstream

IMF and World Bank support additional debt relief for Burkina Faso under enhanced HIPC Initiative.
...support additional debt relief for Burkina Faso under enhanced HIPC Initiative...Association (IDA) agreed this week that Burkina Faso has taken the steps necessary to...Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative. Burkina Faso becomes the fifth country to reach...
April 15, 2002; M2 Presswire

DEVELOPMENT: BURKINA FASO WEIGHS USE OF MODIFIED COTTON
00-00-0000 BOBODIOULASSO, Burkina Faso, Jul. 23 (IPS/GIN) -- The impoverished West African nation of Burkina Faso is giving serious consideration...cotton production. Sixty percent of Burkina Faso's export receipts come from cotton...
July 24, 2003; Inter Press Service English News Wire

Hundreds Return to Burkina Faso
00-00-0000 OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) _ Hundreds of frightened guest...as needed labor, the 3 million Burkina Faso citizens in Ivory Coast increasingly...of more, already has sent 30,000 Burkina Faso nationals fleeing to their native...
November 15, 2002; AP Online

Burkina Faso -- World Bank approves US$45 million Poverty Reduction Support Credit.
...PRESSWIRE-27 August 2001-WORLD BANK: Burkina Faso -- World Bank approves US$45 million...Poverty Reduction Support Credit for Burkina Faso. The interest-free credit will...Credit (PRSC) will help finance Burkina Faso's public expenditure program for...
August 27, 2001; M2 Presswire

Burkina Faso: Unsteady Statehood in West Africa
Englebert, Pierre. Burkina Faso: Unsteady Statehood in West Africa...thorough introduction" (p. 6) to Burkina Faso, is interesting at many levels...entity, and a state. He suggests the Burkina Faso is an "unsteady state" because...
October 1, 1998; Journal of Third World Studies



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