Libya–Sudan border

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Map of Libya-Sudan border

The Libya–Sudan border is 382 km (237 mi) in length and runs from the tripoint with Egypt in the north to the tripoint with Chad in the south.[1]

Description

The border starts in the north at the tripoint with Egypt on

Sahara desert.[2]

History

Britain invaded

Treaty of Ouchy was signed the following year by which the Ottomans formally ceded sovereignty of the area over to Italy.[4][5][2] Italy organised the newly conquered regions into the colonies of Italian Cyrenaica and Italian Tripolitania and gradually began pushing further south; in 1934 they united the two territories as Italian Libya.[6][2]

In 1925 Britain and Italy signed a boundary treaty, whereby the

Chad-Libya border).[3][2] The north-west corner of Anglo-Sudan Egyptian thus created was referred to as the Sarra Triangle; this latter area was ceded to Italy on 20 July 1934, and the boundary re-drawn at its current position.[2] On 7 January 1935 France and Italy signed a treaty which shifted the French Equatorial Africa-Libya boundary southwards (creating the Aouzou Strip, thereby also shifting the Libya-Sudan southwards slightly, however this agreement was never formally ratified by both parties and was thus never implemented.[7][2]

During the

Second World War Italy was defeated and its African colonies were occupied by the Allied powers, with Libya split into British and French zones of occupation.[3] Libya was later granted full independence on 2 December 1951, followed by Sudan in 1956.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ CIA World Factbook – Libya, retrieved 22 January 2020
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i Brownlie, Ian (1979). African Boundaries: A Legal and Diplomatic Encyclopedia. Institute for International Affairs, Hurst and Co. pp. 133–40.
  3. ^ a b c International Boundary Study No. 10 - Libya-Sudan Boundary (PDF), 16 October 1961, retrieved 23 January 2020
  4. doi:10.2307/2212446
  5. ^ "Treaty of Lausanne, October, 1912". Mount Holyoke College, Program in International Relations.
  6. ^ "HISTORY OF LIBYA". HistoryWorld.
  7. ^ Hodder, Lloyd, McLachlan (1998). Land-locked states of Africa and Asia, Volume 2, p. 32. Frank Cass, London, Great Britain.
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