E.Guinea, Gabon clash at ICJ over oil-rich islands

E.Guinea, Gabon clash at ICJ over oil-rich islands …C0NTINUE READING HERE >>>

The two sides hope the court can help them solve their despite.
Photo: Nick Gammon / AFP
Source: AFP

Gabon and Equatorial Guinea faced off on Monday at the International Court of Justice, hoping to resolve a decades-old scrap over the sovereignty of three disputed islands in potentially oil-rich waters.

The two West African nations have been squabbling over the 30-hectare (74-acre) island of Mbanie and two smaller low-lying islets, Cocotier and Conga, since the early 1970s.

Unlike most contentious cases that come to the ICJ in The Hague, the two countries eventually agreed to send the…

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