Doumeira Islands

Doumeira Islands
Geography
Location Red Sea
Area 20 km2 (8 sq mi)
Length 1.12 km (0.696 mi)
Width 1.02 km (0.634 mi)
Highest elevation 43 m (141 ft)
Country
 Djibouti (occupied by  Eritrea)

The Doumeira Islands is location on the north east of Djibouti

History

The currently in force 1900 boundary agreement specifies that the international boundary starts at Cape Doumeira (Ras Doumeira) at the Red Sea and runs for 1.5 km along the watershed divide of the peninsula. Furthermore, the 1900 protocol specified that Ile Doumeira (Doumeira Island) immediately offshore and its adjacent smaller islets would not be assigned sovereignty and would remain demilitarized. [1] Djibouti and Eritrea had twice previously clashed over the border area. In January 1935, Italy and France signed the Franco-Italian Agreement wherein parts of French Somaliland (Djibouti) were given to Italy (Eritrea).[2] However, the question of ratification has brought this agreement, and its provision of substantial parts of Djibouti to Eritrea into question.[3][4] In April 1996 they almost went to war after a Djibouti official accused Eritrea of shelling Ras Doumeira.

See also

References

  1. ^ "International Boundary Studies for most of the world". http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/collection/LimitsinSeas/numericalibs-template.html. Retrieved 2008-11-24. 
  2. ^ Langer, William L. (1948). An Encyclopaedia of World History. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. p. 990. 
  3. ^ "Djibouti-Eritrea boundary row re-emerges". 2008-04-28. http://www.dur.ac.uk/ibru/news/boundary_news/?itemno=6456. Retrieved 2009-08-21. 
  4. ^ "The Eritrea-Djibouti border dispute". Institute for Security Studies. 2008-09-15. http://www.iss.co.za/dynamic/administration/file_manager/file_links/SITREP150908.PDF?link_id=22&slink_id=6572&link_type=12&slink_type=13&tmpl_id=3. Retrieved 2009-08-21.