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E.Guinea, Gabon Clash At ICJ Over Oil-rich Islands

The two sides hope the court can help them solve their despite (Credit: AFP)

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.

The two West African nations have been squabbling over the 30-hectare (74-acre) island of Mbanie and two smaller low-lying islets, Cocotier and Conga, since the early 1970s.

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