Chad–Libya border
The Chad–Libya border is 1,050 km (652 mi) in length and runs from the tripoint with Niger in the west, to the tripoint with Sudan in the east.[1]
Description
The border consists of two straight line segments.
History
The
British-French Agreement of 1899
Britain and France had agreed between them on 21 March 1899 that east of the Niger River, French influence would extend no further north than that of a diagonal line running from the intersection of the Tropic of Cancer and the 16th meridian east to the 24th meridian east, thus creating the long line section of the modern Chad–Libya border.[4][2][5]
The Ottomans protested this treaty and began moving troops into the southern regions of the Vilayet of Tripolitania.
Aouzou Strip
On 18 March 1931 France transferred the
A Franco-Libyan treaty was signed on 1 August 1955 which recognised the existing boundary and confirmed French ownership of the Aouzou Strip.[5][4][2] Chad later gained independence from France on 11 August 1960 and the border became an international frontier between two independent states.[2]
Libyan Border
In 1969
Since then the situation on this remote border quietened considerably. However, in recent years the border has been the focus of renewed attention due to the ongoing
In March 2019 Chadian President
See also
- Aouzou Strip
- Chadian–Libyan conflict
- Chad-Libya relations
References
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- ^ "Treaty of Lausanne, October, 1912". Mount Holyoke College, Program in International Relations. Archived from the original on 2021-10-25. Retrieved 2019-10-09.
- ^ "HISTORY OF LIBYA". HistoryWorld.
- ^ Hodder, Lloyd, McLachlan (1998). Land-locked states of Africa and Asia, Volume 2, p. 32. Frank Cass, London, Great Britain.
- ^ "Public sitting held on Monday 14 June 1993 in the case concerning Territorial Dispute (Libyan Arab Jamayiriya/Chad)" (PDF). International Court of Justice. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 July 2001.
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- ^ "BBC - Chad gold mine collapse leaves about 30 people dead", BBC News, 26 September 2019
- ^ Sami Zaptia (5 March 2019), Chad closes its border with Libya, Libya Herald, retrieved 9 October 2019
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