Det sosialdemokratiske partiet ”Congrès pour la Démocratie et le Progrès” (CDP) har styrt landet i 23 år, og president Blaise Compaoré har blitt gjenvald tre gonger. I november 2010 er det planlagd nytt presidentval. Diplomatiet i Burkina Faso, med president Blaise Compaoré i spissen, har nyleg bidratt som meklar i den politiske krisa i Guinea og har dei siste åra hatt ei meklarrolle i Togo og Elfenbeinskysten. Hovudstaden og nokre provinsar blei ramma av flom i september 2009. Les mer >
Ougadougou (Burkina Faso) - One year on from the start of several months of popular revolts in Burkina Faso, the situation has settled down, but the calm is fragile, say observers. Les mer >
UN Integrated RegionalInformation Networks (IRIN) / 13.3.2012
When most major international news networks finally caught up with the final climactic moments of the Tunisian revolution, it seemed as though, between racing to get last-minute flights to Tunis and playing catch-up with other news agencies that had been reporting on Tunisia since December, the world's major media players made a collective 'never again' resolution to never or try not to ignore any developing story again. Les mer >