Border dispute - The Hala'ibTriangle (Halayeb Triangle)

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[...] Border dispute - The Hala'ib Triangle (Halayeb Triangle) Presentation material The pictures I would have shown during my presentation: Large view around the Triangle, allowing situating it in the world. Closer view, highlighting the Bir Tawil and the 22nd parallel along which the Triangle is. located Presentation I am going to introduce you to the border dispute concerning the Hala'ib Triangle, an area of 20,000 square kilometers between Egypt and Sudan. It is along the 22nd parallel, which represents the border between the two countries, excepted at this very place where the current border is not accepted. [...]

[...] At the time the Hala'ib Triangle was Egyptian and the Bir Tawil Sudanese. But three years later, in 1902, another border was drawn: it placed the Bir Tawil under Egyptian control, and the Hala'ib Triangle under Sudanese control. This had been decided because the tribes living in the Triangle were rather Sudanese, and the opposite in the Bir Tawil. Until January the first there was no tension concerning the Triangle because the condominium was still effective, so Egypt, through Sudan, had indirectly complete control of the zone. [...]

[...] The current border was the 1902 border, and Egypt immediately claims the Hala'ib Triangle to be its own territory. Indeed, the Triangle is a vast area with access to the sea, and which is now said to be full of manganese, a rare material which could be a huge source of money for a country. The dispute is still going today and has triggered many conflicts, with army intervention but without battles, since 1956. In 2000 Sudan eventually withdrew its troops from the zone, leaving the control of the Triangle to Egypt. [...]