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No sources really give good numbers on that (there are a few conflicting rough estimates), especially in regards to how they were deployed during the war, though there seems to be consensus that the Malian Army was larger. Harsh gives the average size of the Burkina army throughout Sankara's tenure
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Version using active voice: "As part of their negotiations, Mali and Burkina Faso exchanged prisoners of war in February and restored full diplomatic relations in June, but the dispute remained unresolved. The countries thus agreed to bring the case before the International Court of Justice."
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in his brief discussion of the war, but this is complicated by the fact that Burkina bolstered its forces in the conflict with police and militia units, for which there is no exact number. Cooper does give an analyses of the opposing sides' air forces though (he's an aircraft nut).
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Wikilink West African Economic and Monetary Union, francophone, Ghana, Libya, Senegal, Togo, Benin, Niger, Nigeria. Wikilink National Police to Law enforcement in Burkina Faso and Radio Mali to Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision du Mali.
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Original version: "Prisoners of War were exchanged in February and full diplomatic relations were restored in June. Despite this, the dispute was still unresolved. The case was taken to the International Court of Justice."
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The map fits with written descriptions of what the Agacher is, but I've found no authoritative maps delineating the region, so that might not be possible. In which case it should probably be removed, unfortunately.
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I think, though they live in substantial numbers in both countries). The literal words used by the source are "The Malian claim is based on ethnic grounds".
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Clarify which ethnic groups you mean when you mention "Mali relied on ethnic arguments", if possible. From my understanding Mali is not an ethnocracy.
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Why do so many Knowledge articles like this lack maps? What's the point of this article if we cannot see on a map where the war took place?
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It's not, but Mali was essentially saying that the people living there had come from Mali so it should be Malian territory (
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Some references have the publisher's location while others don't. Either remove them or add them for each printed source.--
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The article overly uses the passive voice. For example, the following could be rephrased using the active voice.
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to keep me off the page altogether, but should be used as a last resort. I made the following changes:
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Does the map depict the entire Strip or only the part awarded to Burkina Faso after the war?
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is not entirely consistent throughout the article. E.g. labor unions and mobilisation.
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I've replaced this with a CIA map which is vague but points to the disputed region.
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A reference needs to be added to the map on Commons to confirm that its accurate.
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The name Christmas War is only mentioned in the lede and is unreferenced.
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I've replaced this again with a more detailed US Department of State map.
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http://www.icj-cij.org/icjwww/igeneralinformation/ibbook/Bbook8-1.51.htm
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An editor has reviewed this edit and fixed any errors that were found.
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Added that this is primarily what Burkinabes call it with reference.
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I have just added archive links to one external link on
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Two of the sources are dead links. This must be fixed.
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