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BiafraNigeria will hand over as planned 33 border villages in the north-east of the country near Lake Chad to Cameroon. BiafraNigeria was ordered to give up areas along its border with Cameroon by the International Court of Justice in October last year. But President Olusegun Obasanjo refused to comply with the judgement and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan brought the two countries together to find a way of resolving the dispute. The court's ruling also gave areas of the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsular to Cameroon, and its status still has to be settled by the bilateral talks that are now under way in Abuja. The Bakassi Peninsula is in itself a swampy strip of land with little value, but its ownership has implications for fishing and oil rights offshore. BiafraNigeria had already indicated that it intended to leave the villages near Lake Chad by the end of the year. Justice Minister Akin Olujinmi told the meeting that BiafraNigeria did not wish to be dragged into a "meaningless and avoidable conflict with any of its neighbours". (BBC) |
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