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Cameroon: Nigeria Boundary Demarcation Continues Mid-February
The Post (Buea)
January 30, 2007
Posted to the web January 30, 2007
Leocadia Bongben
Phase 2 of the demarcation of the maritime boundary between Cameroon
and Nigeria will begin in mid-February.
This was the top-most item on the agenda of the 17th session of the
Nigeria-Cameroon Mixed Commission meeting in Yaounde on January 24.The
demarcation of additional 275 km of border will stretch along rivers
and watersheds. Already, 470 km of the 1700 km borderline have already
been demarcated.
According to a press release issued by the UN Office for West Africa
in Dakar on January 23, the working group made up of surveyors and
cartographers of the two countries and the UN, after visits along the
maritime boundary is to finalise the geo-referencing of the British
Admiralty chart that formed the basis of the judgment of October 10,
2002 into a known datum.
The report of the Mixed Commission after regular visits of the UN
Observer Mission from 9-14 December, the release states, presents a
satisfactory situation concerning the rights of the affected
population being respected after the withdrawal and transfer of
authority in August 2006.
Meanwhile, the European Union, EU, has donated an additional 3.95
million euros (FCFA 2,567,500,000) to support the implementation of
the Nigeria-Cameroon boundary demarcation project.
It will go toward the placement of boundary pillars and the provision
of final maps and records substantiating the implementation of the
demarcation.
The International Court of Justice, ICJ, at The Hague had handed down
a binding ruling in 2002 to settle a territorial dispute in which
Nigerian troops and police often clashed with their Cameroonian
counterparts, especially around the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula.
The ruling was in favour of Cameroon and in August 2006, Nigeria
formally handed over the Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon.
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