The coup attempt on 28 February, which targeted the Council of Popular Salvation and its leader Major Dr. Telecommunications: all services only fair radio relay, wire, radiocommunication stations in use 8,600 telephones (under 0.14 per 100 popl.The 1982 Upper Voltan coup d'état attempt was an event which took place on 28 February 1982, in the Republic of Upper Volta (today Burkina Faso), just a few months after a previous coup d'état on 7 November 1982, carried out by radical elements of the army against the regime of Colonel Saye Zerbo, who himself came to power in a 1980 coup against Major General Sangoulé Lamizana. Highways: 8,316 km total 967 km paved, 5,639 km improved, 1,710 km unimprovedĪirfields: 55 total, 54 usable 2 with permanent-surface runways 2 with runways 2,440-3,659 m, 3 with runways 1,220-2,439 m Railroads: 1,173 km Ouagadougou to Abidjan (Ivory Coast line) 516 km meter gauge (1.00 m), single track in Upper Volta Monetary conversion rate: about 211.3 Communaute Financiere Africaine francs=US$1 (1980) Major trade partners: Ivory Coast and Ghana overseas trade mainly with France and other EC countries preferential tariff to EC and franc zone countriesĪid: economic commitments–Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF (1970-79), $693.0 million US authorized including Ex-Im (FY70-80) $122.4 millionīudget: (1980) revenue $190.4 million, current expenditures $166.6 million, development expenditures $27.9 million Imports: $236.0 million (c.i.f., 1980 est.) textiles, food, and other consumer goods, transport equipment, machinery, Major industries: agricultural processing plants, brewery, bottling, and brick plants a few other light industriesĮlectric power: 30,000 kW capacity (1980) 90 million kWh produced (1980), 13 kWh per capitaĮxports: $118.6 million (f.o.b., 1980 est.) livestock (on the hoof), peanuts, shea nut products, cotton, sesame GNP: $1,100 million (1980), $177 per capita real growth, 2.5% (1980)Īgriculture: cash crops-peanuts, shea nuts, sesame, cotton food crops–sorghum, millet, corn, rice livestock largely self-sufficientįishing: catch 7,000 metric tons (1979 est.) Member of: AFDB, CEAO, EAMA, ECA, EIB (associate), Entente, FAO, G-77, IBRD, ICAO, IDA, IFAD, IFC, ILO, IMF, IPU, ISCON, ITU, NAM, Niger River Commission, OAU, OCAM, UN, UNESCO, UPU, WCL, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
Other political or pressure groups: labor organizations are badly splintered, students and teachers occasionally strike recent strike helped precipitate military coup Political parties and leaders: all political parties banned following November 1980 coupĬommunists: no Communist party some sympathizers Félix TIENTARABOUM, Foreign MinisterĮlections: political process suspended pending gradual return to civilian rule Sayé ZERBO, President, Military Committee of Reform for National Progress (CMRPN) Lt. National holiday: Proclamation of the Republic, 11 Decemberīranches: President is an army officer 17-man military and civilian Cabinet was appointed 7 December 1980 Supreme Court Legal system: based on French civil law system and customary law Political subdivisions: 10 departments, composed of 44 cercles, headed by civilian administrators Type: military on 25 November 1980 a bloodless military coup ended three years of civilian rule and suspended political activity Organized labor: 4 principal trade union groups, represent less than 1% of population Labor force: about 95% of the economically active population engaged in animal husbandry, subsistence farming, and related agricultural pursuits about 30,000 are wage earners about 20% of male labor force migrates annually to neighboring countries for seasonal employment Language: French official tribal languages belong to Sudanic family, spoken by 50% of the population Religion: majority of population animist, about 20% Muslim, 5% Christian (mainly Catholic) Nationality: noun-Upper Voltan(s) adjective-Upper-VoltanĮthnic divisions: more than 50 tribes principal tribe is Mossi (about 2.5 million) other important groups are Gurunsi, Senufo, Lobi, Bobo, Mande, and Fulani 274,540 km 2 50% pastureland, 21% fallow, 10% cultivated, 9% forest and scrub, 10% waste and other uses
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