Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso (03/05)
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American Embassy Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso -- Home Page
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Millennium Challenge Corporation Announces Grant for Burkina Faso - US Department of State
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V. Country Narratives -- Countries A through G
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The Constitution provides for the right to expeditious arraignment and access to legal counsel after a detainee has been charged before a judge; however, authorities did not ensure due process. The law limits detention for investigative purposes without charge to a maximum of 72 hours, renewable for a single 48-hour period; however, police rarely observed these provisions in practice. The average time of detention without charge was 1 week, and the law allows judges to impose an unlimited number of 6-month preventive detention periods. It was not unusual for defendants without access to legal counsel to be detained for weeks or months before appearing before a magistrate. In some cases, prisoners were held without charge or trial for a longer period than the maximum sentence that they would have received if convicted of the alleged offense. There was a pretrial release system; however, it was unknown how often it was used. In early October, security forces arrested ... [Read More]
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Burkina Faso 2000 Post Report
Health and Medicine FacilitiesA Physicians Assistant based in Niameycomes once a month to Ouagadougou. A locally hired third-country-national nurse runs theEmbassy health unit, with a part-time third-country physician, a laboratory technician anda secretary/ receptionist. Ouagadougou is served and visited quarterly by a StateDepartment Regional Medical Officer (RMO), posted in Bamako, Mali. The U.S. Peace CorpsMedical Office is collocated with the Embassy’s Health Unit. The Health Unit providespreventive, routine, and emergency medical care. This includes treatment of minor ailmentsand injuries, laboratory work, immunizations, and dispensary services. It has 2examination rooms, a recovery room, a laboratory and a pharmacy. The Health Unit is open,Monday through Friday, for routine medical services, with an "o ... [Read More]
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