Former U.S. Ambassador Thomas Stuart Estes, 88, who attended President John F. Kennedy’s last official Oval Office meeting before his assassination, died Tuesday at the Freedom Village Nursing ...

Thomas Stuart Estes, 88, a retired Foreign Service officer who served as ambassador to West Africa's Republic of Upper Volta, now known as Burkina Faso, for six years until 1966, ...

Teeming with excitement from the independence of France, the Republic of Upper Volta in Africa became the epicenter of a music revolution in the Seventies. The cultural capital, Bobo-Dioulasso ...

Israel and the new African nation of Upper Volta signed a treaty of friendship and cooperation, including terms for mutual assistance, particularly in the areas of agriculture and irrigation.

Before its 1960 independence from France, a West African country was known as Haute-Volta, then the Republic of Upper Volta.

Numero Group have announced a new box set called Bobo Yéyé: Belle Époque in Upper Volta. The box set documents the music that emerged from the African country of Burkina Faso during its ...

On this day in 1984, the Republic of Upper Volta changed its name to Burkina Faso. This week looks at a few more prominent name changes. 1 The first craft of this series was to be named ...