ghana ivory coast border dispute

Ghana has ended the first round of oral argument in the maritime dispute between it and Ivory Coast at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea ITLOS. Ghana and Cote D' Ivoire have agreed on a road map to resolve the protracted maritime border dispute between the two countries. Similar grievances on the other side of the continent in the Gulf of Guinea have recently boiled over into a request for arbitration under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea by Ghana against the Ivory Coast. This is not a new dispute. Ivory Coast-Ghanaian Border Dispute In 2010, the West African country Ivory Coast petitioned the United Nations to complete the demarcation of the Ivorian maritime boundary with Ghana.

Cocoa smuggling between Ghana and Ivory Coast is quite common, with its direction shifting back and forth depending on the price difference between the two countries.

The official said Cocobod was aware of possible smuggling from Ivory Coast and had put in place tighter border and quality controls.

Cote d’Ivoire has been claiming ownership of the billions of barrels of oil and cubic feet of gas reserves reportedly found in the deep waters near the coast of Ghana. By.

Ghana, Ivory Coast set to implement maritime border ruling October 18, 2017 Ghana and Ivory Coast have committed to ensure that the recent ruling by an international court on the maritime dispute between the two nations be smoothly implemented. Ghana … African country creates zone in response to last month's killing of 14 soldiers on its border with Burkina Faso. The consensus was reached after a …

Ivory Coast creates northern military zone after deadly attack. Hearing For Ghana, Ivory Coast Border Dispute Starts Today. This occurred just days after the American exploration firm Vanco discovered oil in the Dzata-1 deepwater-well. Although the border dispute had existed for a long time, it was reignited around 2010 – the year Ghana …

An ITLOS hearing over a border dispute with Ivory Coast is threatening to shut down Ghana’s next big offshore oil field, in what would be a significant blow to a growing oil economy and its corporate partners. Ghana’s resort to ITLOS under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) followed 10 failed attempts at negotiations between the two countries.

Following this assertion, the parties agreed to establish the ‘Joint Ivorian-Ghanaian Commission on Maritime Border Demarcation’, and maritime delimitation negotiations commenced.

On 3 December 2014, Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire entered into a Special Agreement to submit the maritime border dispute to a Special Chamber of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) following the breakdown of formal … Ghana and Ivory Coast acted swiftly to implement a ruling on maritime border dispute following a controversy that had surrounded an oil block discovered offshore Ghana.