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The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and Africa investor (Ai) are joining forces to launch a digitally empowered eTrade initiative to enable the digitisation of five million micro-, s... Read more
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President: Roch Marc Christian Kaboré
Prime Minister: Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré
Capital city: Ouagadougou
Languages: French (official), native African languages belonging to Sudanic family spoken by 90% of the population
Population, persons: 19,751,535 (2018)
Area, sq km: 273,600
GDP per capita, US$: 715 (2018)
GDP, billion current US$: 14.1 (2018)
GINI index: 35.3 (2014)
Ease of Doing Business rank: 151
