In August Nigeria ended a drawn-out borderlands conflict by ceding the disputed oil-rich Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon in accordance with a 2002 International Court of Justice ruling.
By Ikbel's accounting, Hamza was vulnerable to a crafty pitch: He was brainwashed into going to Syria to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, the insurgent group fighting to construct a Sunni Muslim state out of the borderlands of two conflict-ridden nations.
When in 2007, after several rebrandings, that group called itself al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Mr Belmokhtar was one of its main leaders, hiding out in Algeria's remote borderlands.
Telltale's own Game of Thrones has really kicked things up several notches in its third episode, while the same studio's Tales From the Borderlands is fleshing out that universe in amazing ways.
Think of it as "surveillance reform" and you'll see that, as Miller points out, we're using our borderlands and those undocumented migrants as an excuse to build, experiment with, and test out a new kind of surveillance state, drones included.
Mr Khan has also vowed to end what he calls "America's war", by pulling all Pakistani soldiers out of the tribal borderlands, including where the Pakistani Taliban are strongest.Mr Sharif is scarcely more liberal.
KAZAN, Russia — A string of violent attacks by Islamic militants has shattered this city's reputation as a citadel of religious tolerance and unnerved federal officials in Moscow, who have worked for decades to prevent the spread of radical Islam out of the southern borderlands and into places like this city 500 miles east of Moscow.
The complete Tales from the Borderlands is out now for just about any platform you'd care to play it on.
Not playing Borderlands 2? Pop the tablet out and play some Angry Birds on Windows 8 or watch a video.
Black held out a 3-D image of the borderlands in Arizona, where the mountains seemed so vivid that people reached out to touch them.
