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	AllRefer.com - Burkina Faso : History : Independence to the Present (Burkina Faso Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		In 1970 a new constitution was approved in a national referendum; Lamizana was to remain in power until 1975, when he would be replaced by an elected president.
		A new constitution was promulgated in 1977, and multiparty presidential and legislative elections were held in 1978; Lamizana was returned to office, but in 1980 he was overthrown in a military coup by Col. Saye Zerbo.
		OuEdraogo's regime proved to be short-lived as well; he was ousted by Capt. Thomas Sankara in 1983 in a bloody coup.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/BurkinaF-history-independence-to-the-present.html (654 words)

	Burkina Faso
		In 1982 Zerbo was ousted, and Maj Jean-Baptiste Ouedraogo emerged as leader of a military regime, with Capt Thomas Sankara as prime minister.
		In February 1996, Kadre Desire Ouedraogo was appointed prime minister by President Compaoré, who was himself re-elected in November 1998.
		Ouedraogo resigned in November 2000 and was replaced by Paramanga Ernest Yonli, the minister for modernization.
	www.screaming.net /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0020326.html (663 words)

	2. Burkina Faso. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The military seized power and suspended the constitution, forming a new government under Lt. Col.
		After countrywide elections, Gerard Ouedraogo became the head of a civilian government.
		Following a successful coup, Maj. Jean-Baptiste Ouedraogo was installed as the leader of a new military regime.
	www.bartleby.com /67/4330.html (263 words)

	Travel in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Jean-Baptiste Ouedraogo toppled Zerbo in another coup on Nov. 7, 1982.
		His government changed the country's name on Aug. 3, 1984, to Burkina Faso ("the land of upright men") to sever ties with its colonial past.
		In Feb. 1996 a little-known economist, Kadre Desire Ouedraogo, became prime minister.
	www.africatravelling.net /burkina_faso/ouagadougou/ouagadougou_history.htm (376 words)

	American University Library - African Mediagraphy
		Follows the course of the major independence struggles beginning with the situation in the Gold Coast and concluding with the fight for majority rule in Zimbabwe and South Africa.
		In the former Upper Volta (renamed Burkina Faso in 1984), Captain Thomas Sankara was the leader of a group of men who, in August 1983, overthrew the government of Maj. Jean-Baptiste Ouedraogo.
		Sankara, who had been Ouedraogo's prime minister, became president of the National Revolutionary Council (NRC) and also served as chief of the army and head of state.
	www.library.american.edu /subject/media/africa.html (6840 words)

	Polity IV Country Report 2003: Burkina Faso (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		However, by 1982 Zerbo was himself ousted in a coup led by junior military officers.
		Major Jean-Baptiste Ouedraogo emerged as the leader of the new military regime, with Captain Thomas Sankara as his prime minister.
		In 1983 Sankara staged a coup against Ouedraogo and assumed power.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/polity/Bfo1.htm (889 words)

	History of Burkina Faso
		But within weeks of Compaore's victory the domestic opposition took to the streets to protest the December 13, 1998 murder of leading independent journalist Norbert Zongo, whose investigations of the death of the President's brother's chauffeur suggested involvement of the Compaore family.
		The opposition Collective Against Impunity--led by human rights activist Halidou Ouedraogo and including opposition political parties of Prof.
		Joseph Ki-Zerbo and (for a while) Hermann Yameogo, son of the first President--challenged Compaore and his government to bring Zongo's murderers to justice and make political reforms.
	www.historyofnations.net /africa/burkinafaso.html (670 words)

	Burkina Faso
		In 1980 he was overthrown in a bloodless coup led by Col Saye Zerbo, as the economy deteriorated.
		1996 Kadre Desire Ouedraogo was appointed prime minister.
		2000 Prime Minister Ouedraogo resigned and was replaced by Paramanga Ernest Yonli.
	www.x-stream.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/countryfacts/burkinafaso.html (570 words)

	Western (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Famine and drought meant that Lamizana could not satisfy public aspirations but he held power and helped to produce a new constitution in 1977 although he was removed without bloodshed by Col. Saye Zerbo in 1980.
		He appointed a mainly civilian cabinet but late in 1982 he was overthrown by army rebels who appopinted Maj. Jean-Baptiste Ouedraogo as leader of the council which appointed Thomas Sankara as Prime Minister in 1983.
		Power struggles ended with a brief but violent coup in which Sankara overthrew Ouedraogo and removed the rest of the opposition.
	www.gaminggeeks.org /Resources/KateMonk/Africa/Western/Burkina-Fasu.htm (368 words)

	Burkina Faso (11/01)
		But within weeks the domestic opposition took to the streets to protest the murder of leading independent journalist Norbert Zongo, whose investigations of the death of the President's brother's chauffeur suggested involvement of the Compaore family.
		The opposition Collective Against Impunity, led by human rights activist Halidou Ouedraogo and including opposition political parties of Prof.
		Joseph Ki-Zerbo and (for a while) Hermann Yameogo, son of the first President, challenged Compaore and his government to bring Zongo's murderers to justice and make political reforms.
	www.state.gov /outofdate/bgn/b/25188.htm (2021 words)

	Ouedraogo, Jean-Baptiste - Former President of Upper Volta (Burkina Faso) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Ouedraogo, Jean-Baptiste - Former President of Upper Volta (Burkina Faso)
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	people.africadatabase.org /en/person/3306.html (189 words)

	CNN Interactive - Almanac - August 4, 1998
		In 1983, Bettino Craxi was sworn in as Italy's first Socialist prime minister.
		In 1983, a military coup in Upper Volta led by Thomas Sankara overthrew Jean-Baptiste Ouedraogo.
		In 1992, millions of fls ended a two-day general strike against white rule in South Africa, during which over 30 people died.
	www.cnn.com /almanac/9808/04 (737 words)

	IRIN Update 477 for 2 June [19990602]
		Last Friday, a coalition of opposition and human rights groups formed in reaction to the killings repeated an earlier call for a general strike on 8 June to pressure the state into taking action against the suspects, PANA reported.
		On Tuesday, Compaore announced the formation of the committee of elders, which includes ex-presidents Sangoule Lamizana (1966-1980), Saye Zerbo (1980-1982) and Jean-Baptiste Ouedraogo (1982-1983).
		Their brief is to propose "the treatment to be reserved for all unpunished crimes and homicides resulting or presumed to have resulted from political violence for the period stretching from 1960 to date," according to an official communique.
	www.africa.upenn.edu /Newsletters/irinw477.html (1229 words)

	Burkina Faso Provinces
		On 1983-08-04, Thomas Sankara took power from Jean-Baptiste Ouedraogo in a coup d'état.
		Sankara went on to choose a new name for the country meaning "fatherland of honest men".
		We can conclude that he was insinuating that Ouedraogo had been dishonest.
	www.statoids.com /ubf.html (661 words)

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		It aims to ensure better prevention and surveillance methods, and to improve the living conditions of people with HIV/AIDS.
		Burkina Finance Minister Jean-Baptiste Ouedraogo said a total of "nearly 38.1 euros (32.5 million dollars) had been mobilised since 1987 to finance the fight against AIDS," adding this was not enough.
		UNDP's Lemaire said the prevalence rate in Burkina Faso could be as high as 10 percent, which would mean about 500,000 people infected and 40,000 sick."
	www.aegis.com /NEWS/AFP/2001/AF0106D8.html (362 words)

	Free College Essays.com - Free Essays, Term Papers and Book Reports.
		On Nov. 25, 1980, Col. Sayé Zerbo led a bloodless coup that toppled Lamizana.
		In turn, Maj. Jean-Baptist Ouedraogo ousted Zerbo on Nov. 7, 1982.
		But the real revolutionary change occurred the following year when a 33-year-old flight commander, Thomas Sankara, took control.
	www.free-college-essays.com /History_Other/1773-Burkina_Faso.html (2196 words)

	Burkina Faso
		Feb 1959 - 5 Aug 1960 Paul Jean Marie Masson (b.
		8 Nov 1982 - 4 Aug 1983 Jean-Baptiste Ouedraogo (b.
		13 Feb 1971 - 8 Feb 1974 Gérard Kango Ouedraogo (b.
	www.worldstatesmen.org /Burkina_Faso.html (610 words)

	::.Angus Reid Consultants.::
		The next three years saw two more coups.
		Jean-Baptiste Ouedraogo toppled Zerbo, but was himself deposed in 1983 by Thomas Sankara.
		In 1984, Sankara changed the country’s name to Burkina Faso, which means "the country of honourable people." The president’s economic and development policies were the target of criticism.
	www.angus-reid.com /tracker/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewItem&itemID=7957 (756 words)

	IRIN-WA Weekly Round-up 22-1999 [19990605]
		President Blaise Compaore has set up a committee of elders to look into unpunished political crimes committed in Burkina Faso since independence in 1960, news organisations reported.
		The committee comprises ex-presidents Sangoule Lamizana (1966-1980), Saye Zerbo (1980-1982) and Jean-Baptiste Ouedraogo (1982-1983), eight traditional and religious leaders and five resource persons.
		It has 45 days to submit its findings.
	www.africa.upenn.edu /Newsletters/irinw6499.html (3161 words)

	CIA - The World Factbook -- Field Listing - Political parties and leaders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		National League for Democracy or NLD [AUNG SHWE, chairman, AUNG SAN SUU KYI, general secretary]; National Unity Party or NUP (pro-government) [THA KYAW]; Shan Nationalities League for Democracy or SNLD [KHUN HTUN OO]; and other smaller parties
		the three national, mainstream, governing parties are: Unity for National Progress or UPRONA [Jean-Baptiste MANWANGARI, secretary general]; Burundi Democratic Front or FRODEBU [Jean MINANI, president]; National Council for the Defense of Democracy, Front for the Defense of Democracy of CNDD-FDD [Pierre NKURUNZIZA, president]
		Citizen and Republican Movement or MCR [Jean Pierre CHEVENEMENT]; Democratic and European Social Rally or RDSE (mainly RAD.
	www.phatnav.com /factbook/fields/2118.html (2951 words)

	The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Political parties and leaders
		National League for Democracy or NLD [AUNG SHWE, chairman, AUNG SAN SUU KYI, general secretary]; National Unity Party or NUP (proregime) [THA KYAW]; Shan Nationalities League for Democracy or SNLD [U KHUN TUN OO]; Union Solidarity and Development Association or USDA (proregime, a social and political organization) [THAN AUNG, general secretary]; and other smaller parties
		the two national, mainstream, governing parties are: Unity for National Progress or UPRONA [Luc RUKINGAMA, president]; Burundi Democratic Front or FRODEBU [Jean MINANI, president]
		Bloc Quebecois [Gilles DUCEPPE]; Canadian Alliance [Stephen HARPER]; Liberal Party [Jean CHRETIEN]; New Democratic Party [Alexa McDONOUGH]; Progressive Conservative Party [Joe CLARK]
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