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Moose (3920 words) |
 | The Mossi states have existed for at least 500 years; the exact dates and origins of the states and their ruling clans are still debated by scholars. |
| The Mossi are noted as the majorif not the onlySahelian states to withstand the spread of Islam in the region. |
| At the time of the French conquest, the oldestbut smallest and weakestMossi state, Tenkodogo, was engaged in a war of mutual raids with a chiefdom to its north, which in turn was a dependency of a buffer state on the edge of the largest Mossi kingdom, Ouagadougou. |
| Burkina Faso (7440 words) |
| C.E. Written sources mention the Mossi in connection with raids on the Sahelian towns of Timbuktu and Walata, and throughout the Middle Ages as anti-Islamic enemies of the Mali and Songhay kings. |
| The traditional Mossi aristocracy and the emerging intellectual elite protested against the dissolution of Upper Volta, and their continued agitation was rewarded in 1947 by the reconstitution of the colony. |
| State employees and employees in parastatals and larger private companies benefit from social security, but for the vast majority there is no social welfare. |
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