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Burkina Faso

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Presentation

Burkina Faso is a landlocked, land-locked, French-speaking West African country surrounded by Mali to the north and west, Niger to the east, Benin to the south-east, Togo and Ghana to the south and Côte d'Ivoire to the south-west.

Administratively, Burkina Faso is divided into 13 regions, each headed by a regional governor. Each region is made up of a set of provinces headed by High Commissioners. The 45 provinces are subdivided into departments, each headed by a prefect.

The department is made up of a set of villages headed by village chiefs assisted today by Village Administrative Officers (VAOs) who are the respondents of the administration in the villages. There are 18 urban centres in the country, of which Ouagadougou is the political capital and Bobo-Dioulasso the economic capital, medium-sized towns such as Koudougou, Banfora, Tenkodogo, Ouahigouya, Fada N'Gourma, Dédougou, Kaya, Dori, Gaoua, Diébougou, Gaoua, Koupéla, and so on.

In the context of decentralization, Burkina Faso has created local authorities in the form of regions and communes.

 

 

 

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