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Burkina Faso is a landlocked country bordering Mali to the north and west, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, and Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, and Togo to the south. The country of approximately 23 million inhabitants is rich in gold, but remains among the poorest in the world according to the United Nations Human Development Index. Since January 2022, the country has experienced two military coups.
After nearly 11 months of popular protests calling for greater economic reforms, more accountable government and better public service delivery, then-President Ali Abdullah Saleh signed the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) agreement in November 2011, transferring presidential authorities to Vice President Abdo Rabu Mansour Hadi.
NDI international election observer delegation and assistance to domestic nonpartisan election monitors and party pollwatching
From its earliest days in the 1980s NDI recognized that throughout the world young people were driving forces in democracy movements. From the Philippines’ People Power Revolution to Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution, from South Africa’s struggle to end apartheid to student protests against Panama's dictator nullifying elections, young people played key roles in autocracy yielding to democracy.
In the past three decades, Côte d’Ivoire has faced a wide variety of identity-based tensions that have led to election-related violence. During the Presidential election period in 2020, over 50 people were killed, and many more were injured and arrested.