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22/02/2015

The Quandary of African borderless children!
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http://mgafrica.com/article/2015-02-21-in-the-footsteps-of-africas-nowhere-children

A growing number of young Africans are struggling to root themselves; products of their parents moves across borders in search of opportunities.

22/02/2015

Obsolete & desolate Europe's former border stations:
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/europes-former-border-stations-obsolete-desolate-but-still-redolent-of-their-past-10057217.html

When Ignacio Evangelista was growing up in Spain, he'd look at maps and feel like a god gazing down on his kingdom. He was particularly fascinated by borders, and wondered why European frontiers were so complicated while African countries had sensible straight lines.

12/02/2015

Continuing tragedy at the Morocco-Spanish border:
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http://livewire.amnesty.org/2015/02/06/spainmorocco-a-tragedy-at-the-border/

The border fence on Tarajal beach which separates Morocco from Spain’s north African enclave of Ceuta, 2 March, 2014. At least 14 people lost their lives in the water here a year ago. © JUAN MEDINA/Reuters/Corbis

12/01/2015

Why Harper Collins Wiped Israel Off the Map
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/11/why-harper-collins-wiped-israel-off-the-map.html

The publisher said it was just giving its customers what they wanted, but maps have always reflected the biases of those drawing the boundaries.

31/12/2014

The Ellis Island intelligence tests of immigrants
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http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ellis-island-challenging-the-immigrant/

The Ellis Island intelligence tests, 1915

29/12/2014

Transform borders instead of re-drawing map!
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http://www.psmag.com/navigation/politics-and-law/instead-re-drawing-map-lets-transform-borders-96940/

With borders around the world constantly in dispute, it's easy to think that the solution might be simple.

29/12/2014

Africans brutalized on Europe-Africa border:
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http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-international-tragedy-on-europes-brutal-african-borders-2014-12

Melilla (Spain) (AFP) - Just across the sea from the sunny tourist beaches of southern Spain where many Europeans spend their Christmas holidays, a violent...

29/12/2014

Candid confession of an airport security guard:
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http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/01/tsa-screener-confession-102912_full.html

On Jan. 4, 2010, when my boss saw my letter to the editor in the New York Times, we had a little chat. It was rare for the federal security director at Chicago O’Hare to sit down with her floor-level Transportation Security Administration officers—it usually presaged a termination—…

18/11/2014

Guarding Ebola Border
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http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/11/18/364144837/guarding-the-ebola-border

Ivory Coast is determined to keep Ebola out. The government shut down the border, and enlisted local villagers to serve as informal border security.

17/11/2014

Redrawn Map of Africa:
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Last week we saw Nikolaj Cyon's impression of what Africa would look like had it not been colonized by Europe. In 1995 Prof. Makau wa Mutua attempted to redraw this map of Africa.

15/11/2014

Demarcation of Nigeria-Cameroon border causes tensions


http://www.naij.com/319593-does-nigeria-cede-rich-oil-to-cameroon.html

Сitizens of Cross River State are raising the alarm over the ceding of their oil rich communities to Cameroon.

14/11/2014

St. Kitts and St. Eustatius maritime boundary issue settled!
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http://www.sknvibes.com/news/newsdetails.cfm/89591

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, NOVEMBER 10TH 2014 (CUOPM) – Agreement has been reached on a maritime boundary between St. Kitts and the Dutch island of St. Eustatius, but talks with France in relation to St. Barts to continue.