LEAD. Leaders' Visits & Agreements Database
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Western Africa

Burkina Faso

442 recorded engagements by Burkina Faso's heads of state, heads of government and foreign ministers, 1990–2025.

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442Engagements
438Visits
1Phone calls
3Video conferences
22Signed agreements
70Destination countries
19Officials recorded
273Multilateral summits

LEAD records 22 signed agreements for Burkina Faso; registered users can browse them in the Agreements register.

At a glance

Between 1990 and 2025, Burkina Faso's leaders recorded 442 engagements: 438 in-person visits, 1 phone calls and 3 video conferences. Activity peaked in 1998, with 22 engagements that year. The most frequent destination was United States of America (52 engagements), followed by Nigeria and Ivory Coast. Diplomacy and Foreign Relations was the most common topic, present in 95% of engagements. 22 engagements produced a signed agreement, and 273 took place at multilateral summits. The most active official on record is Blaise Compaoré (President), with 267 engagements between 1990 and 2014.

Activity by year

Every engagement recorded for Burkina Faso, 1990–2025. Hover a bar for the exact count.

1990: 4 engagements1991: 10 engagements1992: 5 engagements1993: 4 engagements1994: 4 engagements1995: 4 engagements1996: 5 engagements1997: 12 engagements1998: 22 engagements1999: 14 engagements2000: 12 engagements2001: 14 engagements2002: 13 engagements2003: 16 engagements2004: 18 engagements2005: 12 engagements2006: 18 engagements2007: 15 engagements2008: 18 engagements2009: 16 engagements2010: 14 engagements2011: 10 engagements2012: 16 engagements2013: 12 engagements2014: 19 engagements2015: 9 engagements2016: 17 engagements2017: 20 engagements2018: 9 engagements2019: 20 engagements2020: 16 engagements2021: 21 engagements2022: 7 engagements2023: 3 engagements2024: 7 engagements2025: 6 engagements19901995200020052010201520202025

Most-visited countries

  • United States of America52
  • Nigeria38
  • Ivory Coast32
  • France30
  • Ethiopia25
  • Ghana23
  • Libya23
  • Senegal20
  • Mali16
  • Togo14
  • Taiwan9
  • Guinea8

Discussion topics

  • Diplomacy and Foreign Relations418
  • Regional Organizations and Multilateral Affairs278
  • Trade and Economic Relations45
  • Development and Aid17
  • Peace Negotiations and Mediation14
  • International Conflicts and Crises13
  • Security and Defense12
  • Domestic Political Matters11
  • Peace and Security11
  • Terrorism and Counterterrorism5
  • Agriculture and Food Security4
  • Symbolic and Ceremonial Issues4

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.22976211 [Burkina Faso country profile. Accessed 22 October 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 2026-10-22 and describe outbound engagements by Burkina Faso's own officials.