Examples of using Upper volta in English and their translations into Russian
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Burkina Faso formerly Upper Volta.
The Republic of Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.
Joseph Conombo, 91, Burkinabé politician,Prime Minister of Upper Volta 1978-1980.
The Republic of Upper Volta declared independence on 5 August 1960.
Member of the Special Commission that prepared the preliminary draft of the 1978 Constitution of Upper Volta.
Under its previous name of Upper Volta, the country also competed in 1972.
Member of the Commission of Experts for the settlement of the first border dispute between Mali and Upper Volta.
August 4 The African republic Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.
The ethnic group of the Tampulma(or tammariba, as they call themselves) live in northern Togo,where they recently migrated from areas of Upper Volta.
The country changed its name on August 4, 1984, from Upper Volta to Burkina Faso, which means"Land of Incorruptible People.
For the reasons explained above, this task amounts to ascertaining anddefining the lines which formed the administrative boundaries of the colony of Upper Volta on 31 December 1932.
This coat of arms is similar to the old Upper Volta coat of arms(see below), with the Burkina Faso flag replacing the Upper Volta flag in the middle.
A missionary couple from another mission was assigned to go to an unreached tribe in Upper Volta(now Burkina Faso) in Africa.
In 1961 he became ambassador to Côte d'Ivoire, Dahomey,Republic of Upper Volta, and Niger, before becoming a member of the Israeli Delegation to the United Nations between 1963 and 1967.
There was a woman in Government as far back as the establishment of the Republic of Upper Volta(now Burkina Faso), in 1958.
At the festival's founding in 1969,five African nations: Upper Volta(Burkina Faso), Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Niger and Senegal, were represented, as well as France and the Netherlands.
The overseas territories on the African continent(Côte d'Ivoire, Congo, Oubangui-Chari, Senegal, Mali, Niger, Chad, Dahomey,Mauritania and Upper Volta) chose to become member states of the French Community.
When Upper Volta was dissolved in 1933, several of its provinces were added to Côte d'Ivoire, and 16 types of its stamps were overprinted"Côte d'Ivoire.
In 1919, certain provinces from Ivory Coast were united into French Upper Volta in the French West Africa federation.
Letter dated 26 May 1961 addressed to the President of the Security Council by the representatives of Afghanistan, Burma, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ceylon, Chad, the Congo( Brazzaville), the Congo( Leopoldville), Cyprus, Dahomey, Ethiopia, Federation of Malaya, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, the Ivory Coast, Japan, Jordan, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Mali, Morocco, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Somalia, the Sudan, Togo, Tunisia,the United Arab Republic, the Upper Volta, Yemen and Yugoslavia.
From 1922 to 1932, he held several posts in the colonial administration in Upper Volta, now Burkina Faso, and from 1932 to 1942 in Bamako.
Gérard Kango Ouédraogo(French pronunciation:; September 19, 1925- July 1, 2014) was a Burkinabé statesman anddiplomat who served as Prime Minister of Upper Volta(now Burkina Faso) from 13 February 1971 to 8 February 1974.
Senegal and former French Sudan became the Mali Federation(1960-61), while Ivory Coast,Niger, Upper Volta and Dahomey subsequently formed the short-lived Sahel-Benin Union, later the Conseil de l'Entente.
In 1959 he founded a new party, the Republican Party for Liberty,in opposition to the attempts to make Upper Volta a one-party state under the Voltaic Democratic Union.
He led the Wa Syndicate's 1901 expedition through the Gold Coast and the Upper Volta, looking for minerals and ways to improve river navigation.
After World War II, the Mossi renewed their pressure for separate territorial status andon 4 September 1947, Upper Volta became a French West African territory again in its own right.
And what 19-kilometer bridge,besides also with a bilateral railroad, can build anout-of-the-way regional beggar country-gas station, Upper Volta with missiles, the economy of which is torn to shreds by US and EU sanctions?!
Despite the summit with the leaders of the Central African countries held in Brazzaville(Congo) anda meeting among some of the same leaders at a French-African summit at Ougadougou(Upper Volta), early in December 1996, both of which came out in favour of lifting the sanctions against Burundi, the political climate in Burundi has become frankly deplorable.
In coverage, they range from river basins such as the Danube, Mekong and Okavango river basins,the Senegal river basin, the Volta river basin and the Upper Paraguay River, to shared lake basins such as the Malawi lake basin, the Ohrid lake basin, the Titicaca lake basin and the Victoria lake basin.
SADA has the potential to curb poverty and development needs of young women and children in the Northern Savannah Belt Northern,Upper East, Upper West Regions, and the districts in the Northern, Brong Ahafo and Northern Volta Regions.