Ouagadougou in a sentence

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Most film festivals can be counted on to provide entertainment, laced with some introspection.

Also in September 2022, a group of military officers led by Traore carried out a coup in Burkina Faso’s capital, Ouagadougou, ousting Damiba as interim president of the landlocked West African country.

The Abidjan-Bobo Dioulasso-Ouagadougou and Bamako-Man-San Pédro corridors give these two countries access to the ports of Abidjan and San Pédro in Côte d’Ivoire.

Meanwhile, an airbase in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, as the home of a Joint Special Operations Air Detachment, as well as of the Trans-Sahara Short Take-Off and Landing Airlift Support initiative.

Ramata now lives in Kaya, a city 60 miles north-east of the capital, Ouagadougou, which has become a refuge for many displaced families.

She said the victims of sex-trade were mainly underage girls kept in appalling conditions in Ouagadougou and in mining camps across the West African country.

The 2007 Ouagadougou agreement, another peace attempt, reunited the territory and resolved the crucial question of the eligibility criteria for the presidency, which had excluded Alassane Ouattara from the race.

The minister noted that the Tema-Mpakadan railway line which is scheduled to be completed next year marks a significant milestone in the construction of the Accra-Ouagadougou line.

The parade with a statue of the Virgin Mary was moving through the town of Ouahigouya on Monday when "a group of terrorists intercepted the procession, killing four worshippers and burning the statue," said a spokesman for the Ouagadougou Cathedral.

Its capital is Ouagadougou.

Malian intelligence services said the men "were preparing to carry out attacks on certain sensitive targets" in the cities of Abidjan in Ivory Coast, Bamako in Mali and Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso.

The G5 permanent council, chaired by Niger President Mahamadou Issoufou, met in Ouagadougou on Monday, although Togolese President Faure Gnassingbé was the only other president at the meeting.

The governments of Burkina Faso and France said an armed group coordinated attacks Friday on France's embassy and cultural center and on the west African country's military headquarters in the capital of Ouagadougou.

You claim that the current French President, Emmanuel Macron, botched his visit to Ouagadougou, because “ he gave me the impression that he doesn’t know a thing about African society”.

Air transport Ouagadougou Airport (code OUA) serves the area with flights to West Africa and Europe.

Concerning city management, the communes of Ouagadougou have made the decision to invest in huge projects.

Four rounds of talks led to the 11 July Ouagadougou agreement setting forth conditions for upcoming presidential and legislative elections and ending the general strike as of 3 August 1993.

Gwilliam and others 2008 Air transport There are international airports at Ouagadougou and Bobo-Dioulasso and numerous smaller airfields.

In December 2008, police in Ouagadougou questioned leaders of a protest march that called for a renewed investigation into the unsolved Zongo assassination.

Opponents protested this by storming the parliament building in Ouagadougou, starting fires inside it and looting offices; billowing smoke was reported to be coming from the building by the BBC.