Djibouti
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Djibouti
South of Morocco, no important state had the will or the means to contest Portugal’s use of African coastal waters. Most African states looked inland, regarding the ocean as an aquatic desert and (in West Africa) seeing the dry desert of the Sahara as the real highway to distant markets.
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Bosnia, East Timor, and Kosovo. Each intervention facilitated the separation of territory from an existing state 2