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B. The peninsula and islands that comprise Italy are in the Mediterranean Sea. Over the last several yeas many of the migrants fleeing Africa for Europe have landed in Italy. The current Italian government is trying to stop the flow and is even turning back ships which rescue migrants from drowning in the Mediterranean.
C. Eritrea has a long coastline along the Red Sea which separates Africa from Asia.
D. Italy combined independent, distinct kingdoms and sultanates to create the colony it controlled until its colonial army was defeated in 1942 by British forces during World War II. British and Italian investigators had worked together to capture the Eritrean farmer who was misidentified as a migrant smuggling kingpin with a similar name.
A. In 1962, Ethiopia annulled the Eritrean parliament and formally annexed Eritrea. That sparked a 30-year civil war that ended with Eritrean independence in 1993. Eritrea and Ethiopia also fought a war from 1998 to 2000. The two nations finally established normal diplomatic relations in 2018.