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| | Burkina Faso and Mali, Agacher Strip War, 1985 |
 | | Burkina Faso is landlocked country, with Capital in Ouagadougou, situated in the heart of West Africa, limited in the east by Niger, in the north and north-west by the republic of Mali, in the south by Ghana, in the south-west by Cote d’Ivoire, and in the south-east by Benin and Togo. |
 | | The population of Burkina Faso according to census in 1991 is 9.190.000 (in 1985 it was 7.964.705) and consists of some 60 ethnic groups, predominated by the Mossi, Fulani and Bobo-Dioula. |
 | | The country is limited by Algeria in the north and north-east, Niger in the east, Burkina Faso and Cote d’Ivoire in the south, Guinea in the south-west, and Senegal and Mauritania in the west, and divided into eight regions. |
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