The office of Prime Minister of Burkina Faso was initially created in 1971, when Burkina Faso was named Upper Volta. The Prime Minister is appointed by the President with consent of the legislature. Executive power is shared between the President and Prime Minister.
BurkinaFaso is one of the poorest nations in the world, with the great majority of its workers engaged in subsistence farming.
BurkinaFaso has a small mining industry that produces manganese, phosphates, and gold-bearing quartz; there are also small, and as yet largely untapped, deposits of antimony, copper, zinc, nickel, lead, bauxite, and uranium.
Invaders from present-day Ghana conquered central and E BurkinaFaso, establishing the Mossi states of Ouagadougou, Yatenga, and Tengkodogo in the center and the state of Gourma in the east.
BurkinaFaso is a landlocked country of 105,869 square miles, located in the heart of Western Africa, approximately 600 miles from the Atlantic Ocean.
The tropical weather in BurkinaFaso is divided into two seasons: the dry season from November to May (with a cool and dry period from November to February, and hot weather from March to May), and the rainy season from June to October.
Four parties (of the approximately 60 in BurkinaFaso) are represented in the National Assembly after the legislative elections of May 1997: the CDP, the PDP, the ADF and the RDA.
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