The United National Court inspired with Equatorial Guinea in a row with Gabon over three islands in potentially oil richer waters.
The two Central Africa countries are rewritten through Isles – Conga, Mbanie and Cocoterosa – since the early 1970s.
The islands are practically uninhabited, but are in the maritime zone that is thought to contain significant oil deposits.
The International Court of Justice (SME) has ruled that at the request of Equatorial Guinea-based contracts from 1900. years shared by French and Spanish colonial funds – should be honored.
The Court rejected Gabon’s central argument – that the newer agreement, the Bata Convention in 1974. She shifted the sovereignty of the island in his favor.
In the final and binding judgment, ICJ said that Conga, Mbanie and Cocoteros held Spain, and then transferred his former colony Equatorial Guinea to independence in 1968. years.
Gabon will now have to remove his soldiers from Mbanie, the biggest island.
1972. year, Gabonenac led equal troops from Mbananie and set up his military presence there.
The hostility has cooled until the early 2000s, when the oil prospects in Guinea Bay became obvious.
In 2016, the following years of mediation of the United Nations, the two nations agreed to allow the ICJ to solve this issue.
