Conventional Long Form Name of country: none
Capital City: Ouagadougou Type of Government: parliamentary republic Date of Independence: August 5 1960 National Holidays: Republic Day, 11 December (1958); note - commemorates the day that Upper Volta became an autonomous republic in the French Community Chief of state: President Blaise COMPAORE (since 15 October 1987) Head of Government: Prime Minister Luc-Adolphe TIAO (since 18 April 2011) Executive branch: Includes chief of state and head to government. The cabinet consists of Council of Ministers appointed by the president on the recommendation of the prime minister. Election last held on 21 November 2010 (next to be held in 2015); prime minister appointed by the president with the consent of the legislature. Legislative branch: elections: National Assembly election last held on 2 December 2012 (next to be held in 2017) Judicial branch: unicameral National Assembly or Assemblee Nationale (127 seats; members are elected by proportional representation in one national constituency of 16 seats, and 45 multi-member constituencies having between 2 and 9 seats with members serving five-year terms)elections: National Assembly election last held on 2 December 2012 (next to be held in 2017) Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal Name of their ambassador to the U.S.: Ambassador Seydou BOUDA (since 2 September 2011) Location of their embassy in the U.S.: 2340 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008 Locations of their consultants in the U.S.: NA Name of the U.S. ambassador to them: Ambassador Tulinabo S. MUSHINGI (since 25 July 2013) Location of the U.S. embassy there: 602 Avenue Raoul Follereau, Koulouba, Secteur 4 Locations of U.S. consultants there: NA name of their representative to U.N.: NA Flag: two equal horizontal bands of red (top) and green with a yellow five-pointed star in the center; red recalls the country's struggle for independence, green is for hope and abundance, and yellow represents the country's mineral wealth National symbols: white stallion Click here to hear the national anthem "Le Ditanye" |