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Transnational Issues
Disputes—international: Egypt asserts its claim to the "Hala'ib Triangle," a barren area of 20,580 sq km under partial Sudanese administration that is defined by an administrative boundary which supersedes the treaty boundary of 1899
Illicit drugs: a transit point
for Southwest Asian and Southeast Asian heroin and opium moving
to Europe and the US; popular transit stop for Nigerian couriers