Kombissiri

Kombissiri is the name of a city and one of the same area comprehensive department in the Centre region of South - West African country Burkina Faso. It is capital of the province Bazèga and lies south of the Burkina Faso capital Ouagadougou on the highway to Ghana.

In the divided into five sectors and the main town of the municipality counted 57 places 66 342 people live.

Worth seeing is the mosque Nam Ymi.

Kombissiri end of the 19th century venue of a meeting of the British lieutenant Northcott and the French captain Arminion, in which the two colonial powers sealed the border between their territories. The front of the Frenchmen who had fled to the British colony of the Gold Coast ruler of the Mossireich Ouagadougou, had hoped for from this meeting, to be able to regain his power with the help of the British, which they had previously promised him.

Personalities

  • Joseph Conombo (1917-2008), Prime Minister of Upper Volta / Burkina Faso
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