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Archaeological excavations in Burkina Faso uncovered scrapers, chisels, and arrowheads dating between 14,000 BC and 5,000 BC during the year 1973. These tools belonged to hunter-gatherer communities that populated the northwestern part of what is now Burkina Faso.
On the 2nd of August 1984, the country's name changed from Upper Volta to Burkina Faso, which means land of the honest men. The presidential decree confirming this change was ratified by the National Assembly on the 4th of August 1984.
Thomas Sankara and twelve other government officials were assassinated in a coup d'état organized by Blaise Compaoré on the 15th of October 1987. Compaoré took over as Burkina Faso's president following the assassination.
A Jihadist insurgency began in Burkina Faso in August 2015. On the 4th of June 2021, gunmen killed at least 100 people in Solhan village near the Niger border according to the government of Burkina Faso.
Gold accounts for roughly 70% of Burkina Faso's export earnings with production valued at $7.18 billion representing an estimated 16% of the country's gross domestic product in 2023.