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27 August 2008

Sudan's Phantom North-South borderline

Great post by Wafula Okumu of ISS on his search for a 1956 colonial map of Sudan which supposedly demarcates the North-South border. The map (or at least the boundary it marks) is referred to by the CPA and is critical to the current redeployment of armed forces and claims over oil-rich Abyei.

And yet it apparently doesn't exist...

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