Side by side

Burkina Faso and Mali compared

Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.

🇧🇫Burkina Faso

c. 1050Oubri founds the Ouagadougou dynasty of the Mossi

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🇲🇱Mali

c. 1235Sundiata Keita founds the Mali Empire on the upper Niger

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Shared indicators
42
Domains
9
Crossed events
1
Data through
2026-08-10

The figures, side by side

Each figure is the same observation, with the same source, as on the two dossiers. Every value shows the year it was observed — vintages differ by indicator and nation. A “—” is an absence in the source data, never a zero. Metric names link to the world ranking; values open the figure on its own dossier.

Entangled histories

One event in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

  1. December 1985

    Agacher Strip war with Mali

    A brief border conflict, the 'Christmas War', is fought with Mali over the mineral-rich Agacher Strip before regional mediation ends it.

    War & Rupture · from the Burkina Faso chronicle · Sankara's Revolution and the Birth of Burkina Faso · Thomas Sankara