PN- AAK- ~d..1J Upper Volta A Country Profile Ouagadougou :I: June 1981 10 I Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance Agency for International Development Washington, D.C. 20523 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------~ \ Upper Volta I MAL I Dar i ( J .Tougan Yako . Souls8 ! I f Fada N'Gourma ( Tenkodogo i o EN I N w. 10 Ferkhsidou;ou \ IVORY"COAST Tamlle Sawla • I 5027. " Q·77 (641827) lambe" Con!orma l p,oJ"lIon -- Railroad 5 11,.,<1,,(1 pl'llIlll S " alia 32" Se," I 4 000,000 Road BOUl'ld ..y IjlpreAllln tlltiOn'8 "'01 flle,.,anty tulllo.tI. ,' .... + AI,po,\ UPPER VOLTA: A COUNTRY PROFILE prepared for The Office of U.S. Foreign DisasTer AssisTance Bureau for Private and Development Cooperation • Agency for International Development Department of State Washington, D. C. 20523 by Evaluation Technologies, Inc. Arl ington, Virginia under contract AID/SOD/PDC-C-0283 The profi Ie on Upper Volta is one in a series designed to provide basel ine country data in support of the planning and rei iet operations of the Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDAl. The content, scope, and sources have evolved over the course of the last three years, and no doubt will continue to do so. The relatively narrow focus is intentional. To avoid redundancy, some topics one might expect to find in a "country prof i Ie" are not covered here. If the information provided can also be useful to others in the disaster assistance and development communities, so much the better. Every effort is made to obtain current, reliable data; unfortunately it is not possible to issue updates as fast as changes would warrant. A cautionary note, therefore, to the reader: stat i'st i cs are i nd i cators at best, and if names and numbers matter, the bibl iography will point to a current source. We invite your comments and corrections. Address these and other queries to OFDA, A.I.D., as given above. September 1981 .' OFDA COUNTRY PROFILES: AUGUST 1981 AFRICA LATI N AMER I CA Cape Verde Bol ivia Chad Chi Ie Djibouti Ecuador East Africa Regional Profi Ie EI Salvador Ethiopia Guatemal a Mal i Honduras Mauritania Nicaragua Niger Peru Sahel Transportation Survey Senegal Somal ia Uganda NEAR EAST Upper Volta Zaire Turkey ASIA SOUTH PACIFIC Bangladesh Burma Fiji .1 ndia Tonga Indonesia Western Samoa Malaysia Nepal Pakistan INDIAN OCEAN Ph iii pp i nes Island Countries of the Indian Ocean CARIBBEAN CAR ICOM Regional Profi Ie Dominican Republic Haiti i i UPPER VOLTA Contents CONTENTS Preface .............................................................................................................. .. List of prof I I es •••••••••••••••••••••••••• I I 1. General I nformat ion ............................................................................... .. 1-4 1 .1 Geograph I c codes ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 1 1.2 Country names .................................................................................. .. 1 1.3 Official hoi idays ...................................... 1 1.4 Currency ............................................................................................ .. 2 1.5 Time zones .................................... ! ••••••••• 2 1.6 US mission and staff .................................................................... .. 2 1.7 Host mission a~d staff i n US .................................................... .. 2 1.8 Treat i es and agreements .............................................................. .. 3 1.9 International organization memberships •••••••.••••••••• 3 1. 10 Travel and visa i nformat i on ..................................... 3 1. 11 Ethn I c and soc I ocu Itura I groups •••••••••••••••••••••••• 4 1. 12 Languages ................................... : ............................................. .. 4 1.13 Rei iglons ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••, 4 1.14 Education ............ .. .. .. .. .. .. 4 2. Government ••••••••••••••••• 5-6 2.1 National government .. > •••••••••••• 5 2.2 Regional organization •••••••••••• 5 2.3 Major governmental figures ••• .. .. .. .. 6 3. Disaster Preparedness ••••••••••••.••••••••••••••••. 7-16 3.1 Host disaster p Ian ..................................... 7 3.2 Other support groups •••••••••••••••••••••••••.••••••••• 7 3.3 US miss i on p I an ............................0 •••••••••• 8 3.4 I nternat I ona I re I I ef agenc I es ••••••••••••••••••••••• 8 3.5 Host resources .................... .. .. .. 10 3.6 US resources ............................................ 10 3.7 Host storage fac i I I ties ..............•..•••••.•••....•. 11 3.8 Gendarmer I e Nat I ona I stat Ions ••••••••••••••••.••••••••• 12 3.9 Emergency she Iter ....................................... 13 3.10 Disaster types ......................................... 13 3.11 US vo I untary agenc I es •••••••.•••••••••.•.....•.•••••••• 14 4. Population ••• .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 17-19 4.1 National popu I ation ..................... ............. 17 4.2 Regional d I str I but I on •••••••••••••••••••• 17 4.3 Urban areas ........................................... 19 5. Health, Nu~rltlon, and Housing •••.•••••••••••••••••••••••••• 20-27 5.1 avera I I hea Ith status ................................. 20 5.2 Vital statistics ...................................... 20 I I I UPPER VOLTA Contents 5.3 Health services and facil ities ••••••••••••••••••••••••• 21 5.4 Hea I th personne I .••.••••••••.•••••••••••••••••••••.••.• 26 5.5 Nutrition and diet .............•••......••.•. o ••••••••• 26 5.6 Housing ••••.••••••..••••••••.•••.••.•••••• o •••••••••••• 27 6. Economy ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 28-32 6.1 Overview of economy .......•.......•••••••••.••.....•.•. 28 6.2 Sa I ance of payments •••••••••••••••••••.••••••••..••.•.• 29 6.3 Imports •.••..••••••.••••••.••••••.•••.•.••••••••••.•••• 30 6.4 Exports ................................................ 31 7. Agriculture ..•....•.......•.•.••..•..••.....••............•• 33-36 7.1 Overview of agricultural sector •••••••••• .. ." .. " ....... 33 7.2 Planting and harvesting dates •••••••••••• 34· 7.3 Crop. product i on •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 35 7.4 Current status. 36 8. Physical Geography .......... " .................... " •. " .......... .. 37-40 8.1 CI imatic zones ...................................... " ••••••• 37 8.2 Topography ..................................................... 37 8.3 Temperatures .................................................... 37 8.4 Precipitation .••••••••••••••.•••••••.•••••.••••••••. 38 8.5 Land use ................................................. 38 8.6 Water resources ................... " .............................. .. 39 8.7 Mineral s .................................... "................... 40 9. Transportation and Logistics •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 41-48 9.1 Road network ....................... 41 9.2 Major routes ............................... 41 9.3 Road crews ............................................... 43 9.4 Surface distances ••• 43 9.5 Vehicles .••••••••••.••.•••••••. 43 9.6 Ra i I road ........................ .. 44 9.7 Ports .••••••••••••••..•• ............... 44 9.8 Airports •••••••••••••••• 44 9.9 Aircraft entry requ i rements ................ a-a •••••••••• 47 9 • lOA i r lines •••••••••••••••••••••••.•••••••.•..•.•••..••••• 47 9.11 Air distances ••••••••••••••••.•••••••••••.•.•..••.••.• 48 10. Power and Commun I cat ions •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 49-51 1 0 .1 E I ectr i c power .......................................... 49 10.2 Radio stations ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 49 1 0 .3 Tel ev i s i on ................................................. 50 1 0 .4 Te I ecommun i cat ions ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 50 10.5 Press •••.••••.•••••••••••..•••••••••••.•••.••••••.••.•• 50 10.6 Emerg~ncy network ••••.••.•...••••.••••••••••••••••••••• 51 Bib I i ography ........................................................ 52-54 iv UPPER VOLTA 1. General Information 1. General Information " 1.1 Geographic Codes AID Standard 686 FIPS UV State Regional AF 1.2 Country Names Off i cia I Republ.ic of Upper Volta Local Republ ique de Haute-Volta Short Upper Volta 1.3 Official Hoi idays New Year's Day January Anniversary of 1966 Revolution January 3 Mou loud * Easter Monday * May Day May Ascension * Pentecost (Whit) Monday * Assumption * Id-al-Fitr * AI I Sa i nts Day November Id al Adha * Ramadan * Proclamation of the Republ ic December 11 Christmas December 25 * Varies from year to year. Consult embassy for exact date. UPPER VOLTA 1. General Information 1.4 Currency (August 1981) 285.70 CFA francs* = SUS * Also currency for Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Niger, Senegal, Togo. 1.5 Time Zones EST + 5 1.6 U.S. Mission and Staff to Upper Volta (May 1981) Embassy of the United States Boite postale 35 Ouagadougou, Upper Volta Phone: 35442/4/6 Ambassador (Vacancy) Charge d'Affaires Larry C. Grah I Pol itical/Economic Section Rodney Huff Consul, Consular Section Donna A. Weaver Labor Officer Er i c Svendsen (resident in Dakar) Administrative Section Joseph S. Jenkins Agency for InternatIonal Development Richard C. Meyer Public Affairs Officer (USICA) Thomas N. Hu II 1.7 Host Country MissIon and Staff In US (May 1981) Embassy of the RepublIc of Upper Volta 2020 Connecticut Ave., N.W. WashIngton, D.C. 20009 Phone: 202/332-5577 2 UPPER VOLTA 1. General Information Ambassador Telesphore Yaguibou Counselor Enis G. Nikiema Counselor (Economic & Commercial Affairs Hama