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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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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Chad, which is rich in oil, has been hit by the conflict in the neighbouring Sudanese western Darfur region, with hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing across the border.
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