Back Узброеныя сілы Буркіна-Фасо Byelorussian Въоръжени сили на Буркина Фасо Bulgarian Streitkräfte Burkina Fasos German Fuerzas Armadas de Burkina Faso Spanish Forces armées du Burkina Faso French Oružane snage Burkine Faso Croatian Burkina Faso hadereje Hungarian Angkatan Bersenjata Burkina Faso ID Forze armate del Burkina Faso Italian Вооружённые силы Буркина-Фасо Russian
| Burkina Faso Armed Forces | |
|---|---|
| Forces armées du Burkina Faso | |
 Coat of arms of Burkina Faso | |
| Current form | 1985 |
| Service branches | Burkina Faso Ground Force Air Force of Burkina Faso National Gendarmerie People's Militia |
| Headquarters | Ouagadougou |
| Website | defense.gov.bf |
| Leadership | |
| Commander-in-chief | Captain Ibrahim Traoré |
| Minister of Defense and Veteran Affairs | Colonel Kassoum Coulibaly |
| Chief of General Staff | Colonel-Major Célestin Simporé |
| Personnel | |
| Active personnel | 12,000 (Army 7,000, Air 500, Gendarmerie 4,500; 2022)[1] |
| Expenditures | |
| Percent of GDP | 2.4% (2021)[1] |
| Related articles | |
| History | Agacher Strip War Sierra Leone Civil War Insurgency in the Maghreb 2014 Burkina Faso uprising January 2022 Burkina Faso coup d'état September 2022 Burkina Faso coup d'état Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso |
| Ranks | Military ranks of Burkina Faso |
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The Burkina Faso Armed Forces (French: Forces armées du Burkina Faso) is the term used for the national military of Burkina Faso. The service branches of the armed forces include its Army, Air Force, National Gendarmerie and People's Militia. Being a landlocked country, Burkina Faso has no navy.
- ^ a b c "Burkina Faso". The World Factbook (2024 ed.). Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved 2 October 2022. (Archived 2022 edition.)
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