Others have already fled into northern Namibia after the capture of a rebel base near the border.See article: Angola's war spills over its borders...Britain said it would not give export credits for arms sales to 63 of the world's poorest countries.The trial of 20 prominent members of Egypt's banned Muslim Brotherhood started in Cairo.
Worse yet, the conflict in Syria could spill over its borders.
As foreigners get entangled, a risk is growing that Syria's war will spill over its borders.
But there's no strangling the Kim regime without the help of China and Chinaa has legitimate fears that a bursting North Korea would spill over its borders.
The fear was that the Somalia's instability would spill over its borders and go down the coast threatening Mombasa, East Africa's most important port and Kenya's vital tourist industry.
Even now, there is little sign that China, worried that upheaval in North Korea could spill over its borders, will exert enough pressure to get Mr Kim to start the disarmament he agreed to under a deal in 2005.The fallout from a nuclear-armed Iran would be still more destabilising.
"I ask you if what we are confronting is a civil war, or bands of terrorists...who have obtained recognition...without deserving it?" said Alfonso Lopez Michelsen, a former president, in a surprisingly outspoken moment.Colombia's neighbours now worry that the trouble could spill over its borders.
The Iraqi conflict, by contrast, will not merely spill over its borders.
Growing violence in Syria threatens to spill over its borders with Israel, Lebanon and Turkey, a NATO ally.
London has no control over its borders while it remains a member of the UK".
Therefore, a historical development might weaken a nation state's control over its borders but it still holds the legitimacy to govern.
