Even the hinge marks and the intermittent red borders agreed.
Pirates in the Red Sea, border skirmishes with Eritrea, intermittent political tensions in Ethiopia, and Qaeda terrorists hiding out in Yemen.
Food and income often became unexpectedly scarce in her hometown, which lies near the intermittent warzone area that marks the border between South Sudan, and its parent country and long-time opponent, the Republic of Sudan.
Armenia and Azerbaijan, for example, suffered from intermittent violence over ethnic enclaves and borders.
A series of "intermittent" closures has started on a cross-border bridge linking Scotland and England.
Having directed three prior road movies (including "The Motorcycle Diaries"), Salles is no stranger to the genre's conventions of open space and intermittent lassitude, but his treatment of the book borders on precious.
Some drainage channels are consequently inaccessible for maintenance, resulting in intermittent flooding; this is particularly severe in areas bordering Hungary.
But the fence covers only about three miles of the 205-mile border between Austria and Slovenia and has intermittent holes where wine workers need to cross.
The health worker, a Sierra Leonean national, worked at the Ebola treatment centre in the coastal Kambia district on the border with Guinea, where there have been intermittent flare-ups of the disease.
Intermittent outbreaks in Bangladesh and clusters of disease across the border in northeastern India are dramatic reminders that the emergence of new, mutant viruses in developing countries could lead to a pandemic among humans.
The airstrikes, in the remote town of Razah not far from the Saudi border, appeared to be the deadliest attack in months in the intermittent war in Saada Province.
