Write 30 page essay on the topic Geopolitics of Cameroon and Nigeria boarder Crises: Energy impact of the international court of justice decision on production of oil in the Gulf of Guinea.Despite att

Write 30 page essay on the topic Geopolitics of Cameroon and Nigeria boarder Crises: Energy impact of the international court of justice decision on production of oil in the Gulf of Guinea.

Despite attempts to negotiate boundaries between the two nations, Cameroon considered it proper to seek a demarcation of its land and maritime boundaries in the International Court of Justice. Substantial deposits of hydrocarbons in the Gulf of Guinea had made it necessary to ensure that exploration and production efforts enjoyed security.

This thesis presents an examination of the International Court of Justice decision in the Nigeria vs. Cameroon case of and attempts to determine how this decision influenced the balance of hydrocarbon reserves and the energy situation in the region.

The dispute between Nigeria and Cameroon over the political boundaries between the two countries was the result of shifting colonial occupation of territory after the two World Wars (Omoigui, “Origins of the Dispute”). When the British had first arrived in West Africa, the present day states of Nigeria and Cameroon did not exist and the traditional rulers governed their shifting domains, which did not have firm political boundaries (Falola, Chapter 3). Prior to the establishment of the European colonial powers, the political situation in what us now the Southern part of Nigeria was as depicted in the figure presented below (Falola, pp. 52). On September 10, 1884, the Obong of Calabar in the now Southern Nigeria had signed a Treaty of Protection with the British that converted his kingdom into a British protectorate and the British were to gradually expand their colonial rule to the rest of the territory that is now Nigeria. However, the region was also of interest to the Germans who had been expanding their colonial rule in the neighbouring region of what is now Cameroon.

Agreements signed between Britain and Germany demarcated their regions of colonial occupation. The first of such agreements between Britain and Germany concluded in March 1913 and a second agreement followed