The crossword solution for the term 'It Was Once French Sudan' is Mali, which is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is bordered by Algeria, Niger, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Senegal, and Mauritania. Mali was once part of French Sudan, a French colonial territory that existed from 1892 to 1959. The territory was divided into two parts, the Upper Senegal and Niger and the Lower Senegal and Niger, and was administered as part of French West Africa.