Equatorial Guinea and Gabon resolve 50-year dispute over Gulf of Guinea islands
Gabon and Equatorial Guinea signed an agreement on Tuesday ending a decades-long dispute over three tiny islands in potentially oil-rich waters after the top UN court backed Malabo.
The court ruled that the Bata Convention did not constitute a legal title to the islands, which was held by Spain and had passed to Equatorial Guinea upon independence in 1968."This matter has been settled once and for all," the Equatorial Guinean minister said, adding the two countries must now "move forward."
This is a summary of the original articles listed below. Always read the source articles for the full context. GhanaSummary does not create or modify the news — we summarise and link to original publishers.
