Agacher Strip War
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The Agacher Strip War, also known as the Christmas War, was a brief conflict fought by Burkina Faso and Mali over a 160-kilometre-long strip of land along the border in northern Burkina Faso from 25 t
The war improved the popularity of Malian President Moussa Traoré's regime.
Thomas Sankara
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Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara was a Burkinabé military officer, politician and revolutionary who served as the first president of Burkina Faso from 1983 until his assassination in 1987. Ideologically a
Agacher Strip War
…armed clashes in 1974, both countries agreed to mediation to resolve their differences. Progress on a solution stalled, and in 1983 Burkinabé President Thomas Sankara and Malian President Moussa Traoré decided to have the border dispute settled by the International Court of Justice and subsequently petitioned the…
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