BURKINA FASO
Is a landlocked country in West Africa around 274,200 square kilometres in size. It is surrounded by: 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, their main religions are Islamic and Christianity and the official language is french. In 2014, its population was estimated at just over 17.3 million.
All about Burkina Faso
OPINIONS
Burkina Faso is a Country which is not known very well, the first problem they faced
is they cant grow and develop without the help of another nations; another problem
which I am going to give my personal opinion is about the president of this country:
Blaise Compaore.
As is well known, this president was one of the people involves in the murder of the
last president Thomas Sankara, and as the people couldn´t choose who will be the
new leader, Compaore as vice president took the position. Recently he tried to amend
the constitution to extend the rule for 27 years, but the people started to fight against
this.
To solve those problems in Burkina Fasso it's important to have a good leader, but
they don't have one, they have one president who doesnt know how to rule a country
like this, a good leader look for opportunities, solutions, look after the good of the
citizens, not as him that he just want extend his power to benefit himself. Create
dialogue tables to start finding opinions and look for ideas which help this country to
have a better development, in that way, the people could have more oportunities and
have better education to begin dreams with a new Burkina Fasso, with better
resources, oportunities, international relations, it might be the beginning of a known
country which all world recognize and not get surprised when they hear this name.
BY: Sharon Barrios
They need international support
People might look powerful when they act violently but a real politic revolution will be generated by a potent and active politic participation. If they are capable of establish a strong democratic process over their differences, they would reach an equable country. Because, in my opinion a bad government brought them a revolution what meant a strong violence in their territory and violence generates a vicious circle that can not be easily broken. International help would be a good answer but at the final they should be able to control their own politics problem.
Burkina Faso also has a strategic position for Mali's conflict and it is a another good reason for international community to get involved in this territory. Even though they have a weak economy and a poor amount of natural resources with a defined policy they will get a higher standard of life quality, but of course it will be a slow process, there is no magic formula.