Subject: Re: Benin border disputes
Date: Aug 31, 2003 @ 22:39
Author: acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
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hmm
no tripoints involved there
so why would we even care really

--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Jesper Nielsen"
<jesniel@i...> wrote:
> Do we know which villages?
>
> J
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: acroorca2002
> To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2003 2:20 PM
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Benin border disputes
>
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Jesper Nielsen"
> <jesniel@i...> wrote:
> > CIA World Factbook 2003
>
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/bn.html#Issue
> s
> >
> > two villages are in dispute along the border with Burkina
Faso;
> much of Benin-Niger boundary, including tripoint with Nigeria,
> remains undemarcated
>
> well it is wet tho
> so no surprise
>
http://home.worldonline.dk/jesniel/border/african_tripoints.htm#b
> jneng
>
> , but states accept 2001 arbitration over disputed Niger River
> islands; several villages along the Okpara River are in
dispute
> with Nigeria; in 2001, Benin claimed Togo moved the
boundary
> stones - joint commission presently resurveying the boundary
> >
> > Jesper
> > --
> > Borderbase - your online guide to international borders
> > http://www.nicolette.dk/borderbase
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