In 2014,an American dad claimed a tiny parcel of African land to form his daughter a princess. But Jack Shenker had got there first – and learned that states and borders are volatile and delicate thingsBir Tawil is the last truly unclaimed land on earth: a tiny sliver of Africa ruled by no state, inhabited by no permanent residents and governed by no laws. To rep there, or you have two choices.
The first is to glide to the Sudanese capital Khartoum,constitution a jeep, and follow the Shendi road hundreds of miles up to Abu Hamed, and a settlement that dates back to the ancient kingdom of Kush. nowadays it serves as the region’s final permanent human outpost before the vast Nubian desert,twice the size of mainland Britain and almost totally barren, begins unfolding to the north.
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Source: theguardian.com