l Issues Ethiopia

Disputes - international: most of the southern half of the boundary
with Somalia in the Ogaden region is a provisional administrative line;
in the Ogaden, regional states have established a variety of conflicting
relationships with the Somali Transitional National Government in
Mogadishu, feuding factions in Puntland region, and the economically
stabile break-away "Somaliland" region; Ethiopia agreeed in 2002 to
demarcate its entire boundary with Sudan; Eritrea and Ethiopia have
expressed general approval of the April 2002 arbitration commission
ruling re-delimiting the boundary, the focus of their 1998-2000 war;
United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) will monitor
activities within the 25-km wide temporary security zone in Eritrea
until demarcation and de-mining are complete

Illicit drugs: transit hub for heroin originating in Southwest and
Southeast Asia and destined for Europe and North America as well as
cocaine destined for markets in southern Africa; cultivates qat (khat)
for local use and regional export, principally to Djibouti and Somalia
(legal in all three countries)

This page was last updated on 1 January 2002

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Europa Island

Introduction

Europa Island

Background: A French possession since 1897, the island is heavily wooded;
it is the site of a small military garrison that staffs a weather station.

Geography Europa Island

Location: Southern Africa, island in the Mozambique Channel, about
one-half of the way from southern Madagascar to southern Mozambique

Geographic coordinates: 22 20 S, 40 22 E

Map references: Africa

Area: total: 28 sq km water: 0 sq km land: 28 sq km

Area - comparative: about 0.16 times the size of Washington, DC

Land boundaries: 0 km

Coastline: 22.2 km

Maritime claims: exclusive economic zone: 200 NM territorial sea: 12 NM

Climate: tropical

Terrain: low and flat

Elevation extremes: lowest point: Indian Ocean 0 m highest point:
unnamed location 24 m

Natural resources: NEGL

Land use: arable land: 0% permanent crops: 0% other: 100% (forests and
woodlands) (1998 est.)

Irrigated land: 0 sq km (1998 est.)

Natural hazards: NA

Environment - current issues: NA

Geography - note: wildlife sanctuary

People Europa Island

Population: no indigenous inhabitants note: there is a small French
military garrison (J