Western Africa
Burkina Faso
59 recorded engagements by Burkina Faso's heads of state, heads of government and foreign ministers, 1990–2025.
At a glance
Between 1990 and 2025, Burkina Faso's leaders recorded 59 engagements: 56 in-person visits, 0 phone calls and 3 video conferences. Activity peaked in 2016, with 4 engagements that year. The most frequent destination was United States of America (49 engagements), followed by Russia and Rwanda. Regional Organizations and Multilateral Affairs was the most common topic, present in 90% of engagements. 1 engagements produced a signed agreement, and 50 took place at multilateral summits. The most active official on record is Blaise Compaoré (President), with 10 engagements between 1997 and 2014.
Activity by year
Every engagement recorded for Burkina Faso, 1990–2025. Hover a bar for the exact count.
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Discussion topics
Cite this profile
Ozturk, Y., Atabas, H., Guler, E., Duyar, B., & Yucel, R. (2026). Leaders' Visits & Agreements Database [Data set]. Africa Foundation. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22255254 [Burkina Faso country profile. Accessed 2 September 2026. https://lead-database.netlify.app/country/burkina-faso.html]
Every part of the site quotes this same reference; other formats (MLA, Chicago, Harvard, BibTeX) are on the About page, which also describes the coding rules and sources. Figures here were generated from the dataset on 2026-09-02 and describe outbound engagements by Burkina Faso's own officials.