THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Equatorial Guinea asked judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Monday to reject Gabon's ...

Gabon told the ICJ that the 1974 Bata Convention fixed the sovereignty of the islands in their favour -- but Equatorial Guinea has dismissed this document as incomplete and unofficial. AFP ...

Gabon has since set up its own military presence on the virtually uninhabited island of just 30 hectares. But the dispute lay dormant until the early 2000s, when the prospect of oil rekindled ...

The tiny island of Mbanié off the coast of Gabon is the subject of a dispute pitting Equatorial Guinea against Gabon at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands. Both Central ...

THE HAGUE, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Equatorial Guinea asked judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Monday to reject Gabon's claim to several islands in potentially oil-rich waters in the ...

Gabon and Equatorial Guinea faced off 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.

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