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Further east lies the border crossing at Andéramboukane (Mali). The border can also be traversed via boat along the river Niver. [9] Travel to the border region is discouraged by third party governments owing to the high incidence of kidnap and criminality, and the ongoing instability resulting from the Tuareg rebellions and the insurgency in ...
Present-day Mali was once part of three West African empires that controlled trans-Saharan trade: the Ghana Empire, the Mali Empire (from which Mali is named), and the Songhai Empire. In the late 19th century, Mali fell under French control, becoming part of French Sudan. Mali gained independence in 1959 with Senegal, as the Mali Federation in ...
The border then reaches the Bafing River, which it follows eastwards, and then the Djinko. [2] The border then goes overland in a southwards direction, with a very brief section utilising the Niger river, before another overland section connects up to the Sankarani River, which it follows for some distance to the south-west. [2]
Mali is a landlocked country in West Africa, located southwest of Algeria. It lies between latitudes 10° and 25°N, and longitudes 13°W and 5°E. Mali borders Algeria to the north-northeast, Niger to the east, Burkina Faso to the south-east, Ivory Coast to the south, Guinea to the south-west, and Senegal to the west and Mauritania to the ...
France had begun settling on the coast of modern Senegal in the 17th century, gradually extending their rule further inland during the mid-1800s onward. [3] [4] The areas east of the Falémé river (i.e. roughly modern Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger) were originally under Senegalese administration as Upper Senegal, but were split off as French Sudan in 1893. [2]
Afghanistan–Uzbekistan border; Akharharghat; Albania–Montenegro border; Algeria–Libya border; Algeria–Mali border; Algeria–Mauritania border; Algeria–Morocco border; Algeria–Niger border; Algeria–Tunisia border; Algeria–Western Sahara border; Andorra–France border; Andorra–Spain border; Angola–Democratic Republic of the ...
Ivory Coast–Mali border (1 C, 4 P) M. Mali–Mauritania border (1 C, 5 P) N. Mali–Niger border (4 P) S. Mali–Senegal border (1 C, 2 P) Pages in category ...
The border starts in the west at the tripoint with Guinea; it then proceeds, indirectly, eastwards via a series of overland and riverine sections (rivers utilised include the Baoule, Gbolonzon, Bessin, Dougoulinfolo, Degou, Banifing, Boronikono, Babani, Bagoé, Kobani, Yaka Anka, Lofoon, Kafonrako and Danboro), before reaching the tripoint with Burkina Faso on the Léraba River.