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Entente Fada N'Gourma was a political party in the Fada N'gourma area of Burkina Faso.
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Entente Fada N'Gourma was a political party in the Fada N'gourma area of Burkina Faso.
The party received 10.1% of the vote in the 1957 Territorial Assembly elections, winning five seats. [1]
Upper Senegal and Niger was a colony in French West Africa, created on 21 October 1904 from colonial Senegambia and Niger by the decree "For the Reorganisation of the general government of French West Africa".
Fada N'gourma, also written Fada-Ngourma or Noungu, is a city and an important market town in eastern Burkina Faso, lying 219 kilometres (136 mi) east of Ouagadougou, in the Gourmantché area. It is the capital of the Est Region and Gourma Province, and is also the seat of the king of the Gurma and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fada N'Gourma.
Gourma is one of the 45 provinces of Burkina Faso, in Est Region. The capital of Gourma is Fada N’Gourma. The population of Gourma was 437,242 in 2019.
The Mossi Kingdoms, sometimes referred to as the Mossi Empire, were a group of powerful kingdoms in modern-day Burkina Faso which dominated the region of the upper Volta river for hundreds of years. The largest Mossi kingdoms was that of Ouagadougou and the king of Ouagadougou known as the Mogho Naaba, or King of All the World, serves as the Emperor of all the Mossi. The first kingdom was founded when Dagomba warriors from the region that is present-day Ghana and Mandé warriors moved into the area and intermarried with local people. Centralization of the political and military powers of the kingdoms begin in the 13th century and led to conflicts between the Mossi kingdoms and many of the other powerful states in the region. In 1896, the French took over the kingdoms and created the French Upper Volta which largely used the Mossi administrative structure for many decades in governing the colony.
The Archdiocese of Koupéla is the Metropolitan See for the ecclesiastical province of Koupéla in Burkina Faso.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Fada N'Gourma is a diocese located in the city of Fada N’Gourma in the ecclesiastical province of Koupéla in Burkina Faso.
Fada N’Gourma is a department or commune of Gourma Province in north-eastern Burkina Faso. Its capital is the town of Fada N’Gourma.
Pama Reserve is a partial reserve in Burkina Faso. Established in 1955, it is located in Kompienga Province and covers an area of 2237 km2. Its eastern border is the Singou river, separating it from two other reserves, Singou and Arli. The western border is the national road N18 from Fada N'Gourma to Porga. In the South the reserve reaches the Pendjari river, being Burkina Faso's border with Benin. The reserve is home to elephants, hippopotamuses, lions, leopards, and 450 species of flowering plants.
Fada N'Gourma Airport is a public use airport located 1 nm south-southeast of Fada N'Gourma, Gourma, Burkina Faso.
The Colony of Niger was a French colonial possession covering much of the territory of the modern West African state of Niger, as well as portions of Mali, Burkina Faso and Chad. It existed in various forms from 1900 to 1960 but was titled the Colonie du Niger only from 1922 to 1960.
Diaba Lompo was a 13th-century ruler, and the founder of the town of Fada N'Gourma, in Burkina Faso. His original name for Fada N'Gourma was Bingo. Fada N'Gourma is the easternmost major city in Burkina Faso. Nowadays it is nicknamed Fada.
Fada may refer to:
Gourmanché is the language of the Gurma people. It is the largest by number of speakers of the Gurma subgroup of the Oti-Volta languages, which includes among others the Moba language and the Konkomba language. It is the major language of the easternmost parts of Burkina Faso, around the traditional Gurma capital Fada N'Gourma; it is also spoken in neighbouring parts of northern Togo, Benin, Niger, Ghana and Nigeria.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tenkodogo is a diocese located in the city of Tenkodogo in the ecclesiastical province of Koupéla in Burkina Faso.
General Council elections were held in Niger on 15 December 1946, with a second round of voting on 5 January 1947. The General Council had been established by decree on 25 October 1946.
Initiative: Eau is an American 501(c)3 nonprofit, non-governmental organization dedicated to strengthening water, sanitation, and hygiene capacity in developing areas and crisis zones for improved public health. Founded in 2013, Initiative: Eau is headquartered in Washington, D.C., U.S.A. with its regional office for West Africa in Fada N'gourma, Burkina Faso. The organization is in Special Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council since 2017.
The Fada N’Gourma shooting occurred on 7 August 2020. At least 20 people were killed when an unidentified gunmen attacked a cattle market in Fada N’Gourma, Gourma Province, Est Region, Burkina Faso.
Fada N’Gourma shooting may refer to:
Bibata Adamou Dakaou is a Nigerien former educator and politician. She was one of the first group of women elected to the National Assembly in 1989.
Amirou Thiombiano was an Upper Voltan politician. He was the son and heir of the traditional monarch of Gourma, youth but came to reject feudalism during his youth. As a student in Dakar he came in contact with Senegalese students belonging to the communist African Independence Party (PAI). He joined the party, and on August 13, 1963 he founded the Voltan Section of PAI. He would serve as the general secretary of the underground PAI in Upper Volta. Back in Upper Volta, Thiombiano worked as a Divisional Customs Inspector. On April 3, 1974 a Council of Ministers meeting appointed Thiombiano as the new Directors of Customs.
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