Delegates from Ethiopia and Eritrea had received initial peace proposals aimed at ending the two-year border conflict on Thursday, which were being reviewed by their governments.
Samson's tale, told in the Book of Judges, is one of cross-border communication and conflict.
Across Iraq's northern border, a different conflict is escalating again.
Although levels of cross-border violence have dropped sharply since the conflict, four Palestinians have been shot dead close to the border, where Israel maintains a buffer zone which civilians are forbidden to enter.
But it is for activities during the 11-year conflict across the border in Sierra Leone that he has been indicted.
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Nothing has crossed the border into Baghdad since the conflict began.
He said economic reform would be his top priority, but news of a coup in nuclear-armed Pakistan brought worries of further conflict along the border in Kashmir.
" As she put it, "The initiative does discuss the 1967 lines, but it would be great if we were in a position where the conflict was a border dispute.
As the Syrian government attempted to utilize the media to enhance Assad's image abroad, advisers attempted to keep tabs on journalists violating government restrictions by illegally crossing the Syrian border to report inside the conflict-ridden nation.
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On Wednesday, 616 people reached the Yida refugee camp in South Sudan - the highest number yet recorded - escaping hunger and conflict across the border in South Kordofan, a bitterly contested region of Sudan better known as the Nuba Mountains.
Jordan has made it clear it will shut its border with Iraq as soon as conflict breaks out, though it has said it will help the UN to care for refugees on the Iraqi side of the border.
He is one of hundreds of thousands of Arabic-speaking Turkish Alawis, most living near the Syrian border, and fears the sectarian conflict next door could open the same fault lines in Turkey especially as relations between the two former allies become increasingly hostile.
The new country could break down in civil conflict along the unsettled northern border or within itself.
The resumption comes as part of efforts to avoid an all-out conflict over oil revenues and border disputes.
Turkey has also backed rebels in neighboring Syria, and some violence from that conflict has spilled over the border.
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Now, the conflict has crossed Sudan's border into neighboring Chad, wreaking havoc among displaced Chadians forced to flee their homes in the east.
Still, the clashes along the Kashmir border highlight how easily simmering tension can flare into conflict.
They fought a brief war with Saudi Arabia in 2009 after their conflict with Yemeni forces spilled across the border.
On the political front, oil traders are closely watching the military activity on the border between Turkey and Iraq, where a brewing conflict could obstruct the flow of oil from the Kurdish region, stifling supply.
After continued international pressure, Pakistan has now agreed to give them refugee status, but wants them to live close to the border so that they can be repatriated soon after the conflict is over.
For example, the conflict in neighbouring Somalia means that armed nomads often cross the border and move into the region to graze their cattle.
Israeli officials maintain that they would agree to halt the conflict if the solders are freed and Hezbollah guerrillas withdraw from the border.
The border tensions come on top of worries about the impact of Venezuela's political conflict and exchange controls on what was once a thriving trade between the two countries.
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Iraq's border region has been targeted by Syria in the past -- as the Syrian conflict escalated in 2012, there was at least one instance where rockets fired from Syria landed in Al-Qaim.
Syrian government planes have bombed the town that buts up against the border with Turkey, sending residents fleeing into the neighboring country and carrying the armed conflict right up to its doorstep.
He has previously expressed concern that the two-year-long conflict in Syria could spill over the 600km (372-mile) shared border.
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But a potentially deadlier conflict, though one with a longer fuse, could erupt on the land border between the civilizations of the East and the West.
Meanwhile there is concern at the UN that Lebanon is becoming more entangled in the Syrian conflict, with a UN Security Council statement underscoring its concern about cross-border attacks and weapons trafficking.
The Israelis have moved Iron Dome missile defence batteries to the north of their country in preparation for a possible repeat of the brief 2006 conflict in which the two belligerents traded thousands of bombs and rockets across the border.
Ankara, too, is anxious to prevent the conflict in Syria, where Kurds are becoming ever more autonomous, from spreading over its border.
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