As expected, impassable roads, increases in prices, and a difficult operating environment related to the rains have hindered operations.

In the former logging concession areas, the lack of maintenance has rendered many of the roads barely passable or, in some cases, impassable.

No district appears to have a working registration system or a land cadastre and inhabitants are spread over large distances in atomized clusters reachable only over frequently impassable roads.

And it is He who merged the two seas this one fresh and sweet, and that one salty and bitter and He placed between them a barrier, and an impassable boundary.

And it is He who merged the two seas this one fresh and sweet, and that one salty and bitter and He placed between them a barrier, and an impassable boundary.

With the onset of the rainy season, many roads have become hazardous and sometime impassable, thus completely cutting off several isolated communities from access to much needed assistance, markets and participation in the ongoing democratic process.

The Egyptians tanks could still have counter attacked, but they were engaged by an Israeli tank battalion that appeared from well behind the trench lines, having crossed supposedly impassable sand dunes. Then the Israeli tanks that had been shooting up the trench lines crossed over them to enter the box, and finish off Egyptian resistance.

The removal of UNMISET troops will eliminate a significant deterrent to criminal activities, especially in border areas, while the withdrawal of the military engineering unit leaves no immediate means to maintain the land routes from Dili to the border, which are expected to deteriorate and become impassable without such intervention, especially during the rainy season.