in the suedien yeels capital, head of the national boundary commission. in ethiopia's capital, the journalist at the reporter and in summerville in the u.s., alex duvall, executive director of the world peace foundation. we asked the ethiopian government for a representative to appear on the panel but no one was available. welcome to you all. alex, what is really behind this border flare-up right now? >> i think the immediate facts we can go into. they are, as always in a border dispute, in dispute themselves. behind that there is the fact that, like almost all borders in africa, this one hasn't been fully deadline delinlyamented. it was determined in colonial times and an arbitrary line was drawn, which is not well understood on the ground and in the best cases and this was one of the better cases until very recently, the governments concerned had a let and let live attitude, allowing the people to live on the border in a traditional way, crossing the border at will. really, regardless of exactly where the legal line ran. and it was a political fallout a

bound boundary commission was established and authorize. to put us on the boundary line which is. which image again did exactly and he drawn the line and he drowned a mob he also took the decor didn't it of the boundary pillars that he actually erected along the boundary in 1000 or 30 from their point of this meeting with its european sudan boundary in fact he changed the description in the in 1000 or 2 agreement as you cited above i'm sorry sudan. miles i'm sorry interrupt you it is just that you know we don't have a lot of for this discussion we know that it's a disputed territory magister ask you what is it that sudan would like to see going forward when it comes to this dispute right now. well. i think i think the dispute is a novel thing and the boundary was never disputed even in 1972. exchange of not to recognize the boundary pillars erected by a good major green and exchange of not from the ministry of minister of foreign affairs of ethiopia is propose and sudan accepted that so there is no boundary disputes between sudan and its eu

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