Download or read book Bakassi Peninsula written by Okon Edet and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bakassi Peninsula: The Untold Story of a People Betrayed essentially narrates the struggle of a people to retain ownership of their homeland; Bakassi Peninsula and the challenges encountered on that tortuous road, following the outbreak of hostilities between the Federation of Nigeria and the Republic of Cameroon over ownership of the Bakassi peninsula. The book provides a brief history of the Usakedet people; customary owners of the peninsula as well as presents a critical view of the administrative, legal and political measures taken by governments including Great Britain that have proved to be detrimental to the interest of customary owners of the peninsula. Bakassi Peninsula: The Untold Story of a People Betrayed equally takes a look at the ownership controversy between Cameroon and Nigeria and provides select legal opinions on the conflict before presenting the reader with un-edited extract of the judgment of the Internal Court of Justice at The Hague. The book finally presents reactions to that judgment by Cameroonians and Nigerians and concludes with a look at what the future might hold for the Bakassi Peninsula and its native population; the Usakedet people.
Download or read book Bakassi Or the Politics of Exclusion and Occupation written by Fongot Kini-Yen and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a complex volume that combines a good deal of survey data on Bakassi and its populations with more ethnographically based insights into the conditions of the Bakassi communities. The book is the outcome of research carried out by Fongot Kini between 2004 and 2009. The work is intended to serve as first hand exhaustive information on the live situation in the contested Bakassi Cameroon-Nigeria border region. The term Bakassi engenders multiple meanings loaded with many conflicting emotional, spiritual and material interests. Native inhabitants are systematically disinherited of their ancestral cultural heritage and socio-economic resources. They are bastardised, humiliated and scammed by unscrupulous opportunists who deliberately misidentify them with intentions of dispossessing them of their ancestral lands and natural resources. Overall the author is in sympathy with the Bakassi who he argues have been marginalised and neglected by the Cameroon state. In particular, the value of the indigenous communities in terms of local economies as well as securing this vital border area has not been recognised and various external groups have been either allowed or encouraged to settle there to both the detriment of local populations and to the security of the region.
Download or read book Nigeria Cameroon International Boundaries and the Dispute Over Bakassi Peninsula written by Joshua Antinyi Asemanya and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ethnicity Economy and Historical Deconstruction in the Bakassi Borderland written by Olukoya Ogen and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2012 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2012 in the subject History - Africa, grade: none, course: African Borderland History, language: English, abstract: This study offers a compelling revision of the meagre Nigerian historiography on the Bakassi Peninsula. It argues that Nigeria's claim of ownership of the Peninsula is logically indefensible and historically unsustainable. It contends further that Efik irredentism which found its expression in Nigeria's attempt to forcefully annex the Bakassi Peninsula is based on historical claims that are in reality largely ahistorical. The study is of the opinion that Nigeria's occupation of, and attempts to exercise sovereignty over the Peninsula emanated from the predictable desire of the Nigerian ruling elite to appropriate Bakassi's abundant natural resources and the strategic advantage that the Peninsula holds for Nigeria's oil interests in the Gulf of Guinea. This study further analyses the border-cum-migration problematics that prevail in the Peninsula. It argues that patterns of migrant life rooted in historic and still functioning socio-cultural and economic networks persist in defiance equally of national and international agreements and political claims to ethnic solidarity. The study concludes that peace can only be guaranteed in the Bakassi Peninsula, and indeed in virtually all conflict prone African borderlands, if African governments respect the old 'glass houses rule' (i.e. the 1964 Cairo Declaration by the OAU) and acknowledge that colonial treaties and national borders, irrespective of their arbitrariness and artificiality, constitute the foundation of all modern African state structures.
Download or read book The Bakassi Dispute and the International Court of Justice written by Edwin E. Egede and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the 10th of October 2002 the International Court of Justice delivered the Bakassi decision, which, amongst other things, excised the resource rich land and maritime territory of Bakassi from Nigeria and transferred its legal title to Cameroon. These two countries under the auspices of the United Nations established the mechanism of the Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed Commission to honour and implement their obligations under the ICJ decision. Over a decade after the ICJ decision this volume brings together academics and practitioners to assess the impact of this decision and the challenges and issues that have been raised in the course of its implementation. Hailed by some as a model of preventive diplomacy and a blueprint for the future, this timely assessment illuminates the difficulties in imposing such controversial decisions and considers whether this type of Mixed Commission is an adequate mechanism for implementing them.
Download or read book Document on the Bakassi Peninsula Border Dispute written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bakassi Peninsula written by Okon A. Odiong and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cameroon Nigeria Border Dispute Management and Resolution 1981 2011 written by Hilary V. Lukong and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2011 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At independence, Cameroon and Nigeria adhered to the OAU principle of uti possedetis juris by inheriting the colonial administrative borders whose delineation in some parts was either imperfect or not demarcated or both. The two countries tried to correct these anomalies. But such efforts were later thwarted by incessant geostrategic reckoning, dilatory, and diversionary tactics in the seventies and eighties that persisted and resurfaced in the nineties with a more determined posture. On two occasions, the border conflict almost boiled over to a full-scale war. First, in May 1981 when there was the exchange of fire between Cameroonian and Nigerian coast guards and second, in February 1994 when Nigeria marched her troops into Cameroon's Bakassi Peninsula. Elsewhere in Africa, border incidents like these have often degenerated into war. But Cameroon and Nigeria together with the international community managed these protracted incidents from escalating into war. This book examines the part played by the disputing parties, Cameroon and Nigeria; the mediation, conciliatory and adjudicatory role of third parties; regional and international organisations, in the process of the resolution of the border dispute from 1981-2011. The study situates the nature and dynamics of the dispute historically, and comprehensively explores in detail its causes, settlement and resolution.
Download or read book Document on the Bakassi Peninsula written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fraud at the Hague Bakassi written by Adebayo Adeolu and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-09-21 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fraud at the Hague-Bakassi examines how the 9/11 attacks on America affected many countries around the world. The strength of the fundamentalist Islamic groups triggered the war on terror, which unnerved many countries around the globe. To counter this, President George W. Bush began the invasion of the two Arab countries Afghanistern and Iraq without approval on the latter. The invasion had an effect on international politics in the European Union because they felt threatened by the United States declaration of the war on terrorism. The United States is the only superpower that showed any interest in establishing military bases in Africa, specifically in the Bakassi region in Africa. The move was not welcome in Europe because the Bakassi was a strategic region located in Nigeria thatwas a forbidden zone for any superpower to occupy. In response to this encroachment by the United States, the World Court in the Hague, in a controversial decision, ceded the territory to Cameroonthus ending the Cameroon versus Nigeria dispute over the Bakassi peninsula region. This decision effectively and deliberately kept the United States out of the region, but it also deprived Nigeria of a region that had belonged to it for centuriesfrom before even the Europeans arrived in Africa.
Download or read book Bakassi Peninsula written by O. A. Odiong and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reclaiming the Bakassi Kingdom written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the case of Cameroon, the Anglo-French partition of the former German colony in 1916 provided that inhabitants living in or near the border region had six months from the time that the border was delimited to express their intention to settle in a region placed under the jurisdiction of the other colonial power. [...] Finally, the Court indicated the precise course of the boundary channel of the Akwayafe to the west of the Bakassi Peninsula. [...] (Anietie Akpan, The Guardian, August 2006) Mr Kiernan Prendergast, the UN's Chairman of the Follow-up Committee, expressed satisfaction with the model example of the settlement of the Bakassi dispute, noting, today we are seeing the voluntary withdrawal of Nigerian forces and transfer of authority to Cameroun. [...] While the international community guides the Cameroonian and Nigerian states in the process of transitioning the peninsula's administration, the indigenes of Bakassi continue to be uneasy and dissatisfied with the arrangements. [...] A sub-committee of the boundary commission also undertook a number of activities with the purpose of providing the Commission with adequate information on the current situation of the displaced persons; the experiences of the host local government areas who bear the brunt of mass returnees; the present experiences of the displaced returnees in their host communities as well as the nature of the ma.
Download or read book Who Owns Bakassi written by Eyo Okon Akak and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Challenges of Conflict Resolution in Africa written by Rose Ngomba-Roth and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2008 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cameroon-Nigerian border conflict over the Bakassi peninsula is a result of colonial negligence. Local interests and boundaries were disregarded when colonial powers were partitioning Africa. The Bakassi Peninsula's richness in natural resources (oil, gas and fish) is the main reason why Cameroon and Nigeria are at loggerheads over the region. Attempts at solving this conflict have failed and even the ICJ ruling does not stand a better chance of settling this dispute if the interests of the local population are not considered.
Download or read book Water Oil and Blood written by Stefan Kirchner and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has often been said that the wars of the future will be a reminder of the wars of the distance past, when not political ideas were the basis for a conflict, but the need to survive. The third Gulf War has been seen by some as a war for oil, yet true resource wars between neighboring nations over water and oil might not be too far away. Just how close the world has come to such conflicts shows the boundary dispute between Cameroon and Nigeria, which has now been brought to an end by the International Court of Justice in The Hague. In this paper, which was written before the judgement of the I.C.J., we will have a look at the issue from a Cameroonian perspective, examining the history behind the conflict as well as the current legal problems posed by it, which might return again in other conflicts in a not too distant future.
Download or read book Cameroon Nigeria Border Conflict The Bakassi Peninsula Case 1960 2013 written by Ater Sawa and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of the Bakassi Peninsula border conflict between Cameroon and Nigeria cannot be overemphasized. The book argues that boundary conflicts have been and will continue to be common features in international politics/relations. The study identifies the types of border conflicts from the Global North to the Global South and shows how colonial governments are partially to blame for the many border conflicts in Africa. This thesis argues that many of the border conflicts, especially in Africa, stem from the arbitrary nature in which boundaries were fixed. The study shows how old treaties are useful in resolving border conflicts. The study then discusses the causes and impact of the Cameroon and Nigeria border conflict and shows that while treaties were valuable to prove that the Bakassi Peninsula belongs to Cameroon, the inadequate treatment of the Bakassi people raises lots of questions. It looks at both the political and socio-economic impact of the border conflict. The study concludes by showing the challenges inherent in the border conflict viz a viz the ICJ ruling and how such challenges may be overcome.
Download or read book Background Notes written by United States Department of State and published by . This book was released on with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
