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Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso BURKINA FASSO burkina-faso. ouagadougou Informations and links Ouagadougou 1 hotel in Ouagadougou Map Ouagadougou Photos Ouagadougou Population on 10-Dec-96 : 709736 ------------------------------- Ouagadougou (WAH-GAH-doo-goo) is the capital of Burkina Faso. It is the country's largest city, with a population of 960,116 (2000) and is the communications, cultural and economic centre as well as the administrative centre. Its name is often shortened to Ouaga. The city is roughly in the centre of the country (12.4? N 1.5? W). Its primary industries are food processing and textiles. Ougadougou is served by an international airport, rail links to Abidjan in C?te d'Ivoire and to Kaya in the north of Burkina, and a highway to Niamey, Niger. The University of Ouagadougou, founded in 1974, was the country's first institution of higher education. The city has few major modern buildings, excepting the headquarters of the West African Central Bank, and the old Ouagadougou Central Mosque remains one of the tallest and most significant buildings. The city hosts the annual FESPACO African film festival. In part as a result, there are many cinemas, alongside nightclubs and French, American and Zaka cultural centres. There is also the biennial SIAO craft festival, which claims to be the largest in Africa. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.) Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta) achieved independence from France in 1960. Repeated military coups during the 1970s and 1980s were followed by multiparty elections in the early 1990s. Burkina Faso's high population density and limited natural resources result in poor economic prospects for the majority of its citizens. Recent unrest in Cote d'Ivoire and northern Ghana has hindered the ability of several hundred thousand seasonal Burkinabe farm workers to find employment in neighboring countries..
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