The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled on Monday that Equatorial Guinea has a legal claim to several small islands in the potentially oil-rich waters of the Gulf of Guinea. This decision settles a decades-long dispute with neighboring Gabon.
In its final and binding ruling, the ICJ, also known as the World Court, sided with Equatorial Guinea. The court stated that Equatorial Guinea’s claim on the islands should be honored, based on a 1900 convention that divided up French and Spanish colonial assets in West Africa.
