Following efforts by Mali asking African leaders to pressure Sankara, tensions erupted on Christmas Day 1985 in a war that lasted five days and killed about 100 people (most victims were civilians killed by a bomb dropped on the marketplace in Ouahigouya by a Malian MiG plane).. 
 in 1849, the German cities of Hamburg, Bremen and Lübeck recognized the New Nation, as did Portugal, Brazil, the Kingdom of Sardinia and the Austrian Empire.. 