Burkina+Faso+Shelby+Sorochman

 __Population__
 * Burkina Faso ** Population Culture  Tourism  Flag  Timeline  Works Cited
 * 15,746,232 people
 * The birth rate is 44.33births/1,000 population
 * The death rate is 13.3 deaths/1,000 population

__Culture__ ﻿Upper Volta became Burkina Faso in 1960 because it won its independence from France. Their government is a parliamentary republic (PR) which is a republic that is under the parliamentary system. There is no clear legislative branch or executive. The real power is held by the head of government rather than the head of state. Instead of calling their PR Parliament, Burkina Faso refers to them as Assemblee nationale du Burkina Faso which translates to The National Assembly of Burkina Faso.
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Burkina Faso consists of 45 provinces.

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 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Popular music in Burkina Faso includes Reggae and Carribean dance music (Zouk).

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13pt;">__**Religion**__
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Muslims
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Christians

<span style="color: #30b050; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt;">__Tourism__ <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #ff0000; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">__**﻿Animal** **Dangers!**__ <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">__﻿Rogue African Elephants__ can become angry and charge you with their giant tusks. Never cross adult members in their herds or a mother and her baby. If musth, a dark oily liquid, is coming off the elephant, they can become very violent
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">__Baboons__ are the most dangerous monkey. They sometimes raid villages, ruin homes, destroy crops, and kiddnap humans. Never wander close to a troop or corner a single baboon. If you see a baboon very, back away from them. never put your back to them.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">__Cape Buffalos__ hide in the bushes waiting for something to attack. Anyone who survives and attack is extremely lucky. Unless you bother them, they will most likely leave you alone
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">__Leopards__ are the strongest cats in the Cat Family. Never EVER go near one. There are hardly ever any survirors from a leopard attack


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">__Rat__ bites can be very infectious. Keep away, though they are very easy to fend off; a broom

<span style="background-color: #ff0000; color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Heads up! <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">If you travel to Burkina Faso anytime soon, make sure your measles vaccine has been updated! Measles is a very common disease and lethal to small children. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">﻿ ﻿ ﻿ Here are some health-care tips for the traveling :) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Here are some other vaccinces you should consider getting to ensure a plesant vacation to Burkina Faso....Just in case... <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">*Please note: all of these diseases can be prevented by vaccines!!!!*
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Children that are six - eleven months old NEED a measles vaccine before entering Burkina Faso to ensure a healthy child
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Small children, teens, and adults are considered immune after two shots for measles. There should be no need to get another measles vaccine unless told to by a doctor.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Hepatities A and B
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Yellow Fever
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Weak case symptoms
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Vomiting, high fever, slow pulse, constipation, nausea, irritablility, headache, bloodshot eyes, furry toung, muscle pains, and reduced urine
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Strong case symptoms
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Yellow eyes and skin, vomiting blood or black vomit, lack of urine, slow heartbeat, general weakness, and high fever
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Polio
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Typhoid
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Rabies
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Meningitis
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Symptoms
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Stiff neck, seizures, eye sensitivity, headache, irritability, fever, and skin rashes.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13pt;">__**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13pt;">﻿ ﻿Food**__
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Bean Cakes
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Contains: black-eyed beans, salt and pepper, onions, carrots, wheat flour, and veggietable oil
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Spiced Lamb Balls
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Veggietable Rice
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Lemon Porridge
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Contains: millet flour or cornmeal, cold water, lemon juice, and boiling water
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Mango Chutney

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="color: #30b050; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt;">__Flag__ <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; fontweight: bold; height: 50.25pt; vtextkern: t; vtextspacing: 78650f; width: 358.5pt;">﻿ <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; fontweight: bold; height: 50.25pt; vtextkern: t; vtextspacing: 78650f; width: 358.5pt;">﻿ The Burkina Faso flag has two horizontal stripes, red on top and green on the bottom. The yellow star in the center symbolizes the country's mineral wealth. Red symbolizes Burkina faso's struggle for independence while the green symbolizes hoope and abundance. <span style="color: #30b050; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt;">__Timeline__
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">1959 - Upper Volta became sovereign from France under Maurice Yameogo
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">1966 - Maurice Yameogo was forced to resign. Sangoule Lamizana became President
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">1968-73 - Famine hit Northwestern Africa
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">1969 - The Economic Community of West African States treaty was signed
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">1983 - Thomas Sankara ended his reign
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">1984 - Upper Volta was renamed Burkina Faso
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">1996 - African Summit opened here
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">1998 - Burkina Faso became the 40th country to pass a treaty that got rid of land mines
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">2000 - Burkina Faso Cardinal Paul Zoungrana died at the age of 82. Salibo Some created Africa’s Sustainable Development Council to help villagers to get out of poverty. The President was blamed for trading arms for diamonds and aiding rebels in Sierra Leone
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">2001 - Citizens from the Ivory Coast fled to run to Burkina Faso. 3,500 people in Africa died from meningitis and Burkina Faso recieved a vaccine
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">2002 - 12,000 people were infected with mengintis and 1,500 died
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">2003 - The President demanded no more exports of cotton were to be traded to the USA
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">2005 - The 7th summit of Sahel and Sahara countries opened in Burkina Faso
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">2007 - Burkina Faso and Taiwan renewed their diplomatic ties
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">2008 - Meningitis broke out over Africa from Burkina Faso even after the UN's disaster relief
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">2009 - 5 people died and 150,000 became homeless after a heavy rainfall that led to a flood
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">2010 - Guinea's leader was housed in Burkina Faso after his assassination attempt. A food crisis arrived in July

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