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River Nile dam: Egypt new African allies

BBC News, 24 June 2021 IMAGE COPYRIGHTGETTY IMAGES Egypt is trying to strengthen its diplomatic and military clout in Africa amid an escalating dispute with Ethiopia over the building of a huge dam on a tributary of the River Nile, writes Egypt analyst Magdi Abdelhadi. The Egyptian Geographic Society, established in 1875, houses some valuable […]

Japan-South Korea 300 years dispute over Dodko Islands

Many South Koreans consider a trip to the Dodko Islands a civic duty. Photographs by Tim Franco ByAlexandra Genova Published November 14, 2018 The Dokdo Islands are the center of a diplomatic dispute between South Korea and Japan that goes back more than 300 years./Photograph by Tim Franco Though the Dokdo—meaning ‘Solitary Island’ in Korean—are […]

What’s a border anyway? Part I

June 22, 2021 By Sam Ratner A view of a steel wall at Evros river, near the village of Poros, at the Greek-Turkish border, Greece, Friday, May 21, 2021. Credit: Giannis Papanikos/AP What actually constitutes the state? When we say that a state has done something — or even that a state exists — who or […]

Nature bites back: Animals push human boundaries

JUNE 22, 2021 Animals and humans are increasingly coming into close contact, as when an elephant burst into a house in Thailand. The pandemic and climate change is testing as never before the delicate balance of human co-habitation with the natural world. As an Australian prison is evacuated after it was overrun by the plague […]

The Persistence of Borders in a Globalized World

By Bruno Tertrais World Politics Review, June 22, 2021 A new border wall stretches along the landscape near Sasabe, Arizona, May 19, 2021 (AP photo by Ross D. Franklin). Back in 1990, when the Soviet bloc was crumbling into new nations, Kenichi Ohmae, a Japanese organizational theorist and management consultant, had the audacity to suggest […]

Heliosphere boundary of the solar system traced

by Explica .co June 21, 2021 Recently it became known that scientists are able to trace the boundary of the solar system heliosphere. This is great news, as it provides insight into the forces that sculpt the bubble of our solar system from the outside. The aforementioned is important, because astronomers have been able to determine […]

Is the Namibia-Botswana Border Treaty Contentious?

New Era, 2021-06-18  By Staff Reporter We wish to respond on the issue relating to the Namibia-Botswana Border Treaty as follows: The Mafwe and the Mayeyi traditional authorities in the Zambezi region wrote in The Namibian dated 17 May 2021 showing their concerns about the border treaty of 2018 between Namibia and Botswana. The chiefs […]