Youga
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|subdivision_name1 = Centre-Est Region
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|subdivision_name2 = Boulgou Province
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|subdivision_name3 = Zabré Department
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|leader_name = The current leader is Chief Nanga Philippe
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Youga is a village in the Zabré Department of Boulgou Province in south-eastern Burkina Faso, about 2 km north from the Burkina Faso–Ghana border. As of 2005, the village had a population of 1018.{{Cite web |url=http://www.inforoute-communale.gov.bf/list_vill/centre_est.htm |title=Burkinabé government inforoute communale |access-date=2008-07-01 |archive-date=2008-10-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011095259/http://www.inforoute-communale.gov.bf/list_vill/centre_est.htm |url-status=dead }} As of 2019 there was a gold mine in Youga operated by a Turkish subcontractorhttps://observers.france24.com/en/20190815-killing-turkish-run-gold-mine-burkina-faso-tensions