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Burkina Faso Concours ENAM — Élève Greffier de Justice

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2026 Statistics

Key Facts: Burkina Faso ENAM Magistrat Exam

16–17 May 2026

Written papers of the 2026 auditeur de justice concours at ENAM Ouagadougou

Ministère de la Justice / DCRP-MJ, 16 May 2026

100 posts / 1,498 candidates

2026 sitting size (90 university-track posts; 10 reserved posts)

Ministère de la Justice Facebook and Faso7, 16 May 2026

10%

Places reserved for titularised public-administration agents (Master or maîtrise en droit, age at most 45)

Loi organique n°006-2024/ALT modifying loi n°050-2015/CNT, art. 12; Ministry sitting communiqué

Three French papers

Droit administratif; droit pénal and procédure pénale; droit civil and procédure civile

Faso7 / Ministry launch, 16 May 2026

Graded /20; ranked fill

No published national percentage pass mark

Ministry sitting practice; vacancy-ranked recruitment

French

Language of the official written concours and ENAM training

Official concours papers

Free 100-question English MCQ study bank for Burkina Faso's ENAM auditeur de justice concours. Official pathway: French written papers then ENAM training. Not an official-format simulation.

Sample Burkina Faso ENAM Magistrat Practice Questions

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1In Burkina Faso, an auditeur de justice recruited through the Ministère de la Justice concours DIRECT is:

A.A sitting juge d'instruction with tenure from day one

B.An avocat already called to the barreau

C.An élève magistrat admitted to train at ENAM before appointment as a magistrate

D.A greffier de justice assigned to a tribunal de grande instance

Explanation: Successful candidates of the concours DIRECT are named auditeurs de justice (élèves magistrats) and train at the École nationale d'administration et de magistrature (ENAM) in Ouagadougou before appointment to the magistrature. They are not yet sitting magistrates, advocates or greffiers.

2ENAM, where admitted auditeurs de justice train, is the acronym for:

A.École nationale de la magistrature (Bordeaux)

B.École nationale d'administration et de magistrature (Ouagadougou)

C.École normale d'administration municipale

D.École nationale des avocats du Mali

Explanation: Burkina Faso's ENAM is the École nationale d'administration et de magistrature in Ouagadougou (enam.gov.bf). It is not France's ENM in Bordeaux. The magistrature section sits inside this Burkinabè school of administration and magistrature.

3Under Article 126 of the Constitution of 2 June 1991, the jurisdictions of the judicial and administrative orders of Burkina Faso include:

A.Only a single Cour suprême combining cassation and administrative review

B.The Cour de cassation, the Conseil d'État, the Cour des comptes, the Tribunal des conflits, and the courts and tribunals instituted by law

C.The French Conseil constitutionnel of nine members and the Cour de cassation française

D.Only tribunaux de grande instance and cours d'appel

Explanation: Article 126 lists the Cour de cassation, the Conseil d'État, the Cour des comptes, the Tribunal des conflits, and the courts and tribunals created by law. Burkina split the old Cour suprême into specialised high courts; it does not use the French nine-member Conseil constitutionnel organigram.

4Article 127 of the Constitution assigns the Cour de cassation which role?

A.Superior jurisdiction of the judicial order

B.Superior jurisdiction of the administrative order

C.Superior jurisdiction of public-finance control

D.Sole electoral court that proclaims presidential results

Explanation: Article 127 makes the Cour de cassation the superior jurisdiction of the judicial order. The Conseil d'État heads the administrative order, the Cour des comptes heads public-finance control, and the Conseil constitutionnel handles electoral proclamation and constitutionality.

5In which language are the official written papers of the auditeur de justice concours composed?

A.English only, as a multiple-choice test

B.Mooré only

C.French

D.Arabic only

Explanation: The official 2026 papers were French written compositions in administrative, criminal and civil law. This English MCQ bank is a study adaptation, not the official format or language.

6Article 125 of the Constitution describes the judicial power as:

A.An advisory commission attached to the Prime Minister

B.The guardian of individual and collective liberties, seeing to respect for constitutional rights and freedoms

C.A branch that may be dissolved each year by the President of Faso

D.A military court with exclusive competence over civilians

Explanation: Article 125 states that the judicial power is the guardian of individual and collective liberties and sees to respect for the rights and freedoms defined in the Constitution. It is not a Prime Minister's commission and is not dissolvable like the National Assembly.

7Article 129 of the Constitution provides that:

A.The judicial power is independent

B.Magistrates may be dismissed at will by any minister

C.The Cour de cassation sits only as a political chamber

D.Customary chiefs exercise cassation over TGI judgments

Explanation: Article 129 states simply that the judicial power is independent. Article 131 makes the President of Faso the guarantor of that independence. Dismissal at will by a minister would contradict the constitutional design.

8The 10% of magistrature concours places reserved for titularised public-administration agents is framed by:

A.A purely internal ENAM circular with no statutory basis

B.Loi organique n°050-2015/CNT on the statut de la magistrature, as modified by loi organique n°006-2024/ALT of 26 April 2024 (article 12)

C.The French ordonnance of 22 December 1958 on the statut de la magistrature

D.An OHADA uniform act on commercial companies

Explanation: The quota implements article 12 of the statut de la magistrature (loi organique n°050-2015/CNT), as modified by loi organique n°006-2024/ALT of 26 April 2024. The 2026 sitting reserved 10 posts out of 100 for titularised agents holding a Master or maîtrise en droit and aged at most 45.

9Loi organique n°050-2015/CNT of 25 August 2015 is the Burkina text that:

A.Creates the OHADA Cour commune de justice et d'arbitrage

B.Sets the statut de la magistrature

C.Abolishes the Conseil constitutionnel

D.Replaces the Code pénal

Explanation: Loi organique n°050-2015/CNT of 25 August 2015 carries the statut de la magistrature. It was modified on 26 April 2024 by loi organique n°006-2024/ALT. It does not create OHADA institutions or replace the Code pénal.

10After the constitutional revision of 30 December 2023 (loi n°045-2023/ALT), Article 132 provides that the Conseil supérieur de la magistrature (CSM) is composed:

A.Exclusively of sitting magistrates of the Cour de cassation

B.For half of non-magistrate personalities, with members de droit, elected members and designated members

C.Only of the President of Faso and the Minister of Justice

D.Of nine members copied from the French Conseil constitutionnel

Explanation: Revised Article 132 states that the CSM comprises members de droit, elected members and designated members, and is composed for half of non-magistrate personalities. Members of magistrates' union executives and of political-party leadership are barred. This is Burkina's CSM, not Côte d'Ivoire's CSPJ.

About the Burkina Faso ENAM Magistrat Exam

Burkina Faso's auditeur de justice concours is the direct recruitment path into the magistrature. Candidates admitted as élèves magistrats train at the École nationale d'administration et de magistrature (ENAM) in Ouagadougou. The 2026 Ministry of Justice sitting recruited 100 auditeurs de justice from 1,498 candidates: 1,189 university-track candidates for 90 posts and 309 titularised public-administration agents (Master or maîtrise en droit, age at most 45) for 10 reserved posts. That 10% quota implements loi organique n°050-2015/CNT on the statut de la magistrature, as modified by loi organique n°006-2024/ALT of 26 April 2024 (article 12). Official assessment is three French written papers (administrative law; criminal law and procedure; civil law and procedure), graded out of 20, with ranked fill of vacancies. This free English MCQ bank trains the shared legal knowledge of the pathway; it is not an official translation or a format simulation.

Assessment

The Ministère de la Justice opens a concours DIRECT for auditeurs de justice (élèves magistrats). The 2026 written sitting (16–17 May 2026 at ENAM Ouagadougou) comprised three French papers: (1) droit administratif; (2) droit pénal and procédure pénale; (3) droit civil and procédure civile. Successful candidates train at ENAM before appointment as magistrates. Ranked recruitment fills posted vacancies; papers are graded out of 20. This 100-question bank is an English-language MCQ study adaptation of shared professional knowledge — not an official translation, not a simulation of the French written dissertations, and not a substitute for ENAM training.

Time Limit

Varies by paper. 2026 written papers: 16–17 May 2026 at ENAM Ouagadougou. Duration per paper was not published on verified official pages.

Passing Score

Not published as a national percentage. Recruitment is ranked against posted vacancies; written papers are graded out of 20.

Exam Fee

Not published as a verified 2026 per-candidate tariff on justice.gov.bf or enam.gov.bf. (Ministère de la Justice et des Droits humains; École nationale d'administration et de magistrature (ENAM), Ouagadougou, for training)

Burkina Faso ENAM Magistrat Exam Content Outline

~15% of this bank

Constitutional and judicial organisation / statut

Constitution 1991 Art. 126 high courts, CSM, independence, loi 050-2015/CNT and the 2024 10% quota.

~20% of this bank

Administrative law

Legality, acts, recours, Conseil d'État, public service and expropriation.

~18% of this bank

Criminal law

Loi n°025-2018/AN Code pénal: offence theory, culpability and justifications.

~15% of this bank

Criminal procedure

CPP Burkina: enquête, instruction, garde à vue, ministère public and defence rights.

~18% of this bank

Civil law

Obligations, family (loi n°012-2025/ALT), property, delict; OHADA for commercial law.

~14% of this bank

Civil procedure

Competence, instance, evidence, jugement and voies de recours.

How to Pass the Burkina Faso ENAM Magistrat Exam

What You Need to Know

Passing score: Not published as a national percentage. Recruitment is ranked against posted vacancies; written papers are graded out of 20.
Assessment: The Ministère de la Justice opens a concours DIRECT for auditeurs de justice (élèves magistrats). The 2026 written sitting (16–17 May 2026 at ENAM Ouagadougou) comprised three French papers: (1) droit administratif; (2) droit pénal and procédure pénale; (3) droit civil and procédure civile. Successful candidates train at ENAM before appointment as magistrates. Ranked recruitment fills posted vacancies; papers are graded out of 20. This 100-question bank is an English-language MCQ study adaptation of shared professional knowledge — not an official translation, not a simulation of the French written dissertations, and not a substitute for ENAM training.
Time limit: Varies by paper. 2026 written papers: 16–17 May 2026 at ENAM Ouagadougou. Duration per paper was not published on verified official pages.
Exam fee: Not published as a verified 2026 per-candidate tariff on justice.gov.bf or enam.gov.bf.

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Burkina Faso ENAM Magistrat Study Tips from Top Performers

1Study Burkina institutions (Cour de cassation, Conseil d'État, Cour des comptes, Conseil constitutionnel, CSM) and do not substitute French Cinquième République organigrams.

2Use loi n°025-2018/AN (Code pénal) and the Burkina CPP (loi n°040-2019/AN, recast by loi n°009-2025/ALT), not the French Code pénal or Code de procédure pénale article numbers.

3Treat commercial, company and enforcement questions as OHADA uniform-act problems, not French Code de commerce problems.

4For persons and family, use loi n°012-2025/ALT (promulgated 25 September 2025) rather than the 1989 code; do not invent article numbers.

5After MCQ review, write timed French dissertations in administrative, criminal and civil law; this English bank cannot replace that paper.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the official French exam?

No. Official papers are written dissertations in French in three subjects, followed by ENAM training. This bank is an English-language MCQ study adaptation, not an official translation and not a simulation of those papers.

Who opened the 2026 recruitment concours?

The Ministère de la Justice et des Droits humains opened the 2026 concours DIRECT for 100 auditeurs de justice. Written papers ran 16–17 May 2026 at ENAM Ouagadougou under a national steering committee chaired by the Secretary-General of the ministry.

How many posts and candidates were there in 2026?

100 posts and 1,498 candidates: 1,189 university-track candidates for 90 posts and 309 titularised public-administration agents (Master or maîtrise en droit, age at most 45) for 10 reserved posts (Ministry of Justice / DCRP-MJ, 16 May 2026).

What is the 10% quota?

Loi organique n°050-2015/CNT on the statut de la magistrature, as modified by loi organique n°006-2024/ALT of 26 April 2024 (article 12), reserves 10% of magistrature concours places for titularised public-administration agents meeting the statutory conditions, including a Master or maîtrise en droit and a maximum age of 45.

Where do admitted candidates train?

At the École nationale d'administration et de magistrature (ENAM) in Ouagadougou, as auditeurs de justice (élèves magistrats). ENAM is Burkina Faso's school of administration and magistrature, not France's ENM.

What subjects are tested on the official written papers?

Three French papers: droit administratif; droit pénal with procédure pénale; and droit civil with procédure civile. A published national MCQ item count and a published duration per paper were not found on official pages.