I was just listening to BBC’s Africa Today podcast and the Eritrean ambassador to the UN, Araya Desta, was speaking about the border conflict between Eritrea and Djibouti. When he was explaining that Eritrean troops were only stationed on Eritrean land he referenced the above map:
“I would like to underline that we are in our sovereign territories. The border has been demarcated by France and Italy in 1900 and 1901 and the islands and the mountains that we are talking—Ras Doumeira—are Eritrean. You can see in the google map [above] clearly Ras Doumeira [the little island on the right] is in Eritrea and there is no reason why we should move from our sovereign territories.”
Reminds me of the minor fiasco when Hasboro almost released Monopoly “World Edition” with the property “Jerusalem, Israel”.
